Top Hand

DESCRIPTION: "While you're all so frisky I'll sing a little song... It's all about the Top Hand when he's busted flat." The Top Hand/top screw boasts of his prowess as a cowhandler, but it's all boasting and lies. The cowboys try to expose him, and label him a Jackass
AUTHOR: (Credited by Thorp to Frank Rooney, c. 1877)
EARLIEST DATE: 1899
KEYWORDS: cowboy bragging lie trick
FOUND IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Thorp/Fife-SongsOfTheCowboys V, pp. 61-65 (17-18), "Top Hand" (2 texts); Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 156-158, "Top Hand" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 337, "Top Hand" (1 text)
Roud #8050
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Top Screw
Waddie Cowboy
File: TF05

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