I Learned about Horses from Her

DESCRIPTION: "You can gen'rally tell when they kick you And you know by the scar when they bite." The singer was bitten by his horse Agnes when he clinched her too tight; a horse threw him when he spurred her. Etc. "I learned about horses from her."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe)
KEYWORDS: soldier humorous animal derivative | learning
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe, pp. 68-71, "I Learned about Horses from Her" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #39236
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Learned about Horses from HIm" (theme)
Experience (I Learned About...)
NOTES [24 words]: This, and all the items in the cross-references, are clearly modelled after Kipling's poem "The Ladies" ("I Learned about Women from Her"). - RBW
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File: NiM068

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