Cowboy Songs

This was done by Martha Bickford of Santa Rosa, CA (cow); Wrenay Kann of Syracuse, IN (roosters); and Nancy Douglas of Riverside, CA. (boots, background and grass). The boots are stamped on separate pieces of paper (2 prints of the same stamp) and glued on the card.

Martha or Wrenay laser printed on the back the first verse to Don't Fence Me In:

Don't Fence Me In
by Cole Porter

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze
And listen to the murmer of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don't fence me in

Those lyrics inspired Nancy to add

Surrey with the Fringe on the Top
"Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry" -- in honor of Wrenay's poultry

and

Oh Bury Me Not
"Oh bury me not on the lone prarie" -- giving the boots a kind of "Boot Hill" aspect.

You can bet I was singing "Don't Fence Me In" right away when I saw that printed, and then I went on to an old favorite, "Cowboy Lullaby"

Desert silver blue beneath the pale starlight
Coyote yappin' lazy on a hill
Sleepy winks of light along the far skyline
Time for milling cattle to be still
So, now, the lightnin's far away.
The coyote's nothing skeery, just singing to his dearie
Yahoo! Amollo Holiday, so settle down, you cattle, till the morning.

Nothing out there on the range that you folks need,
Nothing there that seems to catch your eye,
Still you got to watch them or they'll all stampede
Plunging down some 'rroyo bank to die
So, now, the lightnin's far away.
The coyote's nothing skeery, just singing to his dearie
Yahoo! Amollo Holiday, so settle down, you cattle, till the morning.

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