My Ma Was Born in Texas

DESCRIPTION: "My ma was born in Texas, my pa in Tennessee," and the singer was born as they moved to California. He left home to become a cowboy. He married a girl; she proved to have seven children. He caught her with another man and shot him; he is sentenced to life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: courting infidelity homicide prison punishment
FOUND IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 33, "My Ma Was Born in Texas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4808
NOTES [83 words]: This was collected by Edith Fowke in Lakefield, Ontario. Don't ask me how an item about the American South got there.
Possibly this is related to an item that reportedly came from World War I: "My mama was born in Germany, My daddy was born in France, I was born in my BVD's, And I ain't gonna wear no pants." For this, see NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, F. Roy Johnson, "A Sampling of Eastern Oral Folk Humor," Vol. XXIII, No. 1 (Feb 1975), p. 10, "(My mama was born in Germany)" (1 short text). - RBW
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File: FCW33

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