Colorado Home

DESCRIPTION: "Oh give me the hills and the ring of the drills, And the rich silver ore in the ground." The singer asks to for the camp, his steed and guns, his wife, and the hills, where "We'll work and we'll play All the livelong day, Oh there let me live till I die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Emrich, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining home horse wife derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p, 142, "Colorado Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Home on the Range" (form)
NOTES [80 words]: It seems pretty clear this is descended from "Home on the Range." Whether it was taken directly from that song, or derives from an intermediary text such as "Arizona Home," is not clear. Nor is it obvious why it is called "Colorado Home"; that state's name is never mentioned, although there is a brief mention of Glenwood in the third verse. There is a town called Glenwood in the Colorado Rockies, although there are several other towns named Glenwood in the United States. - RBW
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File: LDC142

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