Roll Along, Covered Wagon, Roll Along

DESCRIPTION: "Roll along covered wagon, roll along, To the turn of your wheels I sing a song, City ladies may be fine, but give me that girl of mine, Roll along covered wagon, roll along." The singer is "going home" in the wagon; "this cowboy was never born to roam."
AUTHOR: Jimmy Kennedy (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: cowboy travel return home | covered wagon
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North))
Roud #25741
RECORDINGS:
Will Noble, "Roll Along Covered Wagon" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #62, recorded 08/02/2021)
The Ranch Boys (Jack Ross, Joe Bradley, Ken Carson), "Roll Along Covered Wagon" (Decca 5113, rec. Apr. 16, 1935)
SAME TUNE:
Roll Along, Wavy Navy (File: Hopk074)
Roll Along, You Hungry Buggers, Roll Along (File: DPio311)
Will You Come to Our Wee Party? (File: PKKB057A)
Will You Come to Abyssinia? (File: PKKB057B)
File: RcRACWRA

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