View Poll Results: Poll for the Song A Week Social Group Week #548

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  • Cowboy's Dream

    1 10.00%
  • Ashland Breakdown

    2 20.00%
  • Go And List For A Sailor (English morris dance)

    7 70.00%
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Thread: Poll for the Song a Week Social Group Week #548

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    Registered User Barbara Shultz's Avatar
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    Default Poll for the Song a Week Social Group Week #548

    This poll is for the Song A Week Social Group Week #548.

    One vote per member of the social group. Please feel free to link to videos of these tunes, as a reply to this discussion, to help others decide!

    If you are a regular member, you know that our polls have been weekly polls, for years, but that over the last few months I've been experimenting with changing that. Our poll will be a biweekly poll. Hopefully, that interval will be enough to keep your interest, and also give you enough time to learn it. I plan to announce the winner sometime around Friday, June 18, in the Song A Week Social Group forum.

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    Default Re: Poll for the Song a Week Social Group Week #548

    Found this little nugget...... in the rough...

    Keep in mind I am a firm believer in playing the similiar song "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" daily on my mandolin or my mandola.. So you can see I actually had to vote for once...

    THE COWBOY’S DREAM: A Cowboy Tune
    February 15, 2016 / Gifford MacShane

    A common theme in cowboy songs is the hope of heaven. This particular song is sung to a Scottish air virtually everyone is familiar with: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean. A very early (1935) and abbreviated recording of the song by The Sons of the Pioneers features Roy Rogers on vocals and yodel. It can be heard here.

    The Cowboy’s Dream

    Last night as I lay on the prairie,
    And gazed at the stars in the sky,
    I wondered if ever a cowboy
    Would drift to that sweet by and by.

    CHORUS:

    Roll on, roll on;
    Roll on, little dogies, roll on, roll on,
    Roll on, roll on;
    Roll on, little dogies, roll on.

    The road to that bright, happy region
    Is a dim, narrow trail, so they say;
    But the broad one that leads to perdition
    Is posted and blazed all the way.

    They say there will be a great round-up,
    And cowboys, like dogies, will stand,
    To be marked by the Riders of Judgment
    Who are posted and know every brand.

    CHORUS

    I know there’s many a stray cowboy
    Who’ll be lost at the great, final sale,
    When he might have gone in the green pastures
    Had he known of the dim, narrow trail.

    I wonder if ever a cowboy
    Stood ready for that Judgment Day,
    And could say to the Boss of the Riders,
    “I’m ready, come drive me away.”

    CHORUS

    For they, like the cows that are locoed,
    Stampede at the sight of a hand,
    Are dragged with a rope to the round-up,
    Or get marked with some crooked man’s brand.

    And I’m scared that I’ll be a stray yearling,
    A maverick, unbranded on high,
    And get cut in the bunch with the “rusties”
    When the Boss of the Riders goes by.

    CHORUS

    They tell of another big owner
    Whose ne’er overstocked, so they say,
    But who always makes room for the sinner
    Who drifts from the straight, narrow way.

    They say he will never forget you,
    That he knows every action and look;
    So, for safety, you’d better get branded,
    Have your name in the great Tally Book.
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    Default Re: Poll for the Song a Week Social Group Week #548

    Here’s Martin’s thread on this tune from a couple of months ago.
    https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...894&do=discuss

    (From his thread)

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