My Little Brown Mule

DESCRIPTION: "His mammy's a burro, his daddy's a horse, Of course you'll all think it's a mighty queer cuss," but it's "as smart as a cricket, my little brown mule." Always in trouble, it knows every horse and is "wise as a parson." The singer will never sell it
AUTHOR: N. Howard Thorp
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys); reportedly written 1912
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse animal commerce
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 104-105, "My Little Brown Mule" (1 text)
File: ThLo104

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