Take Me Back to Old Montana

DESCRIPTION: "Take me back to 'Old Montana," where there's lots of room and air... Where at at night th emagpies twitter, And the injun fights were fit. The singer mentions the rivers makiong green patches in the Bad Lands. The singer hopes to die in Montana
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1937 (Powder River Jack & Kitty Lee Songbook)
KEYWORDS: home river Indians(Am.) cowboy
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp 568-569, "Take Me Back to Old Montana" (1 text plus several variants)
ADDITIONAL: Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee's _Songs of the Range: Cowboy Wails of Cattle Trails_, Chart Music, 1937, pp. 4-5, "Powder River, Ler 'er Buck" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: PRJ016

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