| Show 'Tjf i J T THE GARLAND jAwi - TIMES Jj GARLAND k‘4 UTAH These Brands Are Intermountain Made And Deserve Your Support aarv GRAHAA NAUGHTY iiS?i?5Wi “On the Western Trail”— A cowboy group the work of the famous woman resculptor Sally James Farnham cently exhibited In New York By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE of the current Broadway stage successes is a play which bears the title of "Green Grow the L- ilacs” and sophisticated Gotham which doesn’t usually think a song is worth singing unless it Y W came out of Tin Pan is delighted Alley with the songs in that play And the majority of them had their origin not In New York but in the Southwest— they are songs w hlch the cowboys used to sing This incident is another example of the Increasing Interest of Americans in the folklore of their country That Interest has manifested Itself In various forms — In the popularity of the spirituals of the South in the revival of singing of ballads of past generations (ballads which prove conclusively that although many of them trace back directly do the old English ballads America had a native balladry) and in the wider dissemination of the legends of Paul Bunvan Pecos Bill and John Henry myth heroes created in the fertile imaginations of the lumberjacks the cowboys and the negro railroad workers respectively The play referred to above takes its name from a song “Green Grow the Lilacs” which has been sung In the Southwest for generations Its origin Is veiled In obscurity One critic has ventured the opinion that it traces lts ancestry back to Robert Burns’ poem ‘‘Green Grow the Rashes” If so perhaps somewhere In the line of descent may be found a song popular with the American soldiers during the Mexican war "Green Grow the Rushes !” and there Is a legend that the Mexican name for Amerlcnns "grlngoes” la a corruption of the words “green grows” Another of the songs of this play which Is said to have been an old favorite In the Southwest hence was well known In Oklahoma the native state of Lynn Riggs author of the play Is ‘‘My Name Is Sam ITall" There Is no doubt about the origin of this song for It comes from London where It was a cellar ditty In 1S48 W G Ross a Scotch low comedian was singing In Cider Cellars in Maiden Lane Covent Gardens ( the original of Back Kitchen In incidentally and “Mv name Is Sam Hall” was one of his “hits” How did this song find its way to the old Indian territory? Did some adventurous Cockney carry it there or did some disgraced “younger son” who could not live In England and who had fled to the American frontier where no questions were asked about a man’s past first sing It along the banks of or the Cimarron? the Canadian No But the cowboys once one knows suing It on the Oklahoma range and It is their version slightly changed from the original English version which is being sung on Broadway today In reality though this Is not so unusual for an examination of the cob lection of old cowboy gongs made by John A Lomax of Texas several years ago will show that many of the favorites among the cowboys especially those of the more sentimental type (and the cowboy was strong for the song which dripped wiih sentimentalof old resemble some closely the ity!) trace English ballads and probably Some typical directly from them ones given in the Lomax collection are those which bear the titles Bon“Fair Fannie Moore" nie Black re-s“Her White Uosom Bare” and “Young Charlotte” of More than that investigators this type of folk song have revealed the fact that nany of the best known iro Aa I walked down by St James hospital so early one day James hospital tc etc St cowboy songs are nothing more than of sentimental ballads of adaptations an earlier day This is true of one of the most famous of them all—a song variously known as “The Dying Cowboy” “The Cowboy’s Lament" and “The Lone Prairie" a song of numerable verses and of many variations both as to the wording of the different stanzas and the chorus which In practically all follows each stanza versions the first stanza is the same: bury me not on the lone prairie" Thebe words came low and mournfully From the pallid lips of a youth who lay bed at the close of day On his dying “Oh By making allowance for much “local color" It Is easy to see how “The Lone Prairie" song was adapted from the song “The Ocean Burial” words by W II Saunders music by G N Allen which appears In “The Nightingale" a book of songs for "Juvenile Classes Public Schools and Seminaries" compiled by V ) and II S Perkins and published by Ditson In 1800 The first verse of “The Ocean Burial” tells how: “O bury me not In the deep deep sea1 The words came low and mournfully From the pallid llpa of a youth who lay On his cabin couch at close of day verses deand Its other numerous scribe the deathbed scene minutely and with a wealth of detail only of scenes are laid on the course the “deep deep sea” Instead of the "lone Nearly as famous a cowboy song as "The Lone Prairie” Is another also called “The Cowboy's variously and “The Dying Cowboy” which has this chorus: drum alowly and play beat the fife lowly Flay the Dead March aa you carry me along Take me to the churchyard and lay the aod o'er me For I’m a young cowboy I know I’ve done wrong” “Oh th Different authorities on cowboy songs and other native American ballads' credit the authorship of this soug to various persons and the usual statement is that “It appeared on the ranges In the early eighties" Although It Is difficult to determine the authorsince such a song ship of a ballad usually represents the contribution of amateur bards of a succession rather than the work of a single poet It Is my belief that as nearly as the authorship of “The Cowboy's Lament” credit for it becan be determined longs to the late F H Maynard of Colo an Colorado Springs Here Is his story as he told cowboy it to me several years ago: "During the winter of 1S70 I was a Grimes outfit which had for working started north with a trail herd from We were winMatagorda Bay Texas tering the herd on the Salt Fork of river on the border of the Arkansas Kansas and Indian territory waiting for the spring market to open at Wichita “One of the favorite songs of the called cowboys In those days was ‘The Dying Girl's Lament’ the story of a girl who had been betrayed by her lover and who lay dying in a hospital I don't remember all of the song but It began something like this : bc beat the drum slowly and play tha fife lowly Play the Dead March as you carry me along Taka me to the green valley there lay tha eod o'er me For I'm a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong I sea by your outfit that you are a cowboy" These words he did say as I boldly stepped by "Come sit down beside ms and bear my aad story I was shot In th breast and I know I must die” From which it will be seen that In the years in which the fame of thin “poor cowboy who done wrong” has spread the scene of his untimely demise has been changed to Laredo But before It is Lo lafe I Texas want to register this footnote to history and say that It took place In Dodge City Kan! I know beettu-- e the manwho killed him (in a song) told me so! s:i Weetera Newspaper I'nlun ) names would you prothree poets nounce? Dickens Howitt Burns What full? A an empty box? Plenty eats and eats meat grinder e Where do time? On the the and never of gets e the birds women’s hats go In e J esses MONKEY The little monkey was devoted to the little girl who owned him but be did hot care for jpther people He used to make faces at her friends who took her away from him for a long time They would say: “Your monkey is making faces at us" and she would shake her right hand at the monkey and would say : “Naughty monkey!" And the monkey grinned as though to say: “I’m not really naughty I don't liko those who take you away from me so long “I probably am a little bit selfish a little hit jealous and perhaps but I'm really not so naughty” Sometimes her friends Would come and they would say: “Let's play house” They all liked to play this game and little owner was very the monkey's fond of it too Often she would be the one who would suggest It first a Such good time as they always bad playing house They always played for a long time and at the end of an afternoon when the little friends would go home the only one who wns really not sorry to see the game end was the monkey After the friends had gone home they played house themselves — the little girl and her monkey But one day when they were playing house he upset a bottle of Ink He thought it was a great joke to see the ink spill out over the floor How quickly his little owner had to work to wipe up the Ink and not get it Over herself "Naughty monkey" she said but he only laughed he was a naughty Oh yes indeed monkey But when he was sick he was very brave and patient and when his lit- - What's in room TMe By Prise Sieryi Week's Oae ef the feresMst reasena fer nalm y redacts They ere the eioncy css bay anywhere Year money tha spent it hvaaflt ta Pawr ewe pert ef the era a try fautasd of baildlnsr BP and hatpin support eastern I: bct “I had often amused myself by trying to write verse and one dull winter day in camp to while away the time I began writing a poem which could be sung to the tune of 'The Dying I made it a dying Girl's Lament’ ranger or cowboy instead of a dying girl and had the scene in Torn Sherman’s barroom instead of a hospital “Tom Sherman was a noted character in the old cattle trail days a big strapping fellow six feet six or six feet seven tall who first ran a dance hall and saloon In Great Bend In 1873 and then moved to Dodge City where he ran the same sort of place until some time in the ’80s All of the cowboys who came "Up from Texas knew Tom Sherman “After I had finished the new words Upset a Bottle of Ink I sang It to the boys In our outfit tie owner was sick he was just They liked It and began singing it It good as good could be In the became popular with other boys She had mumps one time and the outfits who heard it after we had monkey was so good and caused taken our herd to market In Wichita little little trouble after this they the next spring and from that time on so I heard It sung everywhere on the changed his name from Naughty Monkey to Good Monkey range and trail” Oh he w’as so devoted and wanted So “The Cowboy's Lament” is anall he could Of course after other example of a favorite cowboy to help this he still made faces at his little song which was an adaptation of an owner’s friends when they stayed too earlier ballad Mr Maynard’s version long or when they took her away with written In 1876 and thus antedating them to play other versions by five and possibly so had But still he many fine qualitten years had for Its first verse the ies that he really did deserve the following: name of Good Monkey As his little owner said it was very Aa I rode down by Tom Sherman’s barroom to be good all the nearly Impossible By Tom Sherman’a barroom so early time and he really was a dear dear one day There I espied a handsome young monkey ranger Naughty Monkey was now Good All wrapped In white linen as cold as Monkey the clay And he loved his little owner so "I see by your outfit that you’re a very very dearly ranger" The words that ha said as I went ridPUZZLES ing byett down beside me and hear “Come my Bad story What band never plays? A hat band I'm shot through the breast and know e e e I must die” Why does tying a slow horse to a CHORUS: post Improve his pace? It makes him Then multle the drums and play the fust dead march e e e Flay the dead inarch aa I'm carried What kind of a sickle Is most seen along Take me to the church) ard and lay In winter? An leeslekle (Icicle) the eod o'er me e e I'm a young ranger and know I've does opening a letter resemWhy done wrong The version of this song as given ble a strange way of entering a room? Beiause It Is breaking through the in Lomax's collection and as It Is often sealing (ceiling) reprinted starts out : e e As I walked out ln the streets of What Is the highest public building Laredo In Boston? 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