My ode to keeping the western tradition alive!
railroad songs
cowboy songs
rick pickren
buffalo bill cody
ian tyson
songs from the lonesome p
traditional american folk
Story behind the song
I had a conversation with a young cowboy way up in the Big Horn mountain range of Wyoming. Our relections on the changing west is the basis for The Call.
Lyrics
THE CALL
There’s a cowboy cuttin’ trail out near Rio Blanco
He’s on his trusty dun he calls Caballero
There ain’t too many folks out where they are goin’
And the only light you’ll see at night is a campfire glowin”
The ridges and the runs have been there for ages
Now progress is tearing up the mountain ranges
For homes and shopping malls the timber is fallin’
Yet on the wind above the din an old voice is callin”
Callin’ saddle up, git along, ride out, ride tall
Gitty-up, yippe-yeah, yippie –yi is the call
All a cowboy needs to survive is a range and a pony to ride
So saddle up, git along, ride out, ride tall
Gitty-up, yippe-yeah, yippie –yi is the call
Like the setting sun the old ways are fading
Our wilderness for oil and ski resorts they’re trading
But the cowboys’ holdin’ on though their numbers are fallin
For on the wind above the din an old voice is callin”
So saddle up, git along, ride out, ride tall
Gitty-up, yippe-yeah, yippie –yi is the call
All a cowboy needs to survive is a range and a pony to ride
So saddle up, git along, ride out, ride tall
Gitty-up, yippe-yeah, yippie –yi is the call
There’s a cowboy cuttin’ trail high ‘bove Rio Blanco
He’s on his trusty dun he calls Cabellero
Ridin’ high and wide is their only endeavor
Someday they’ll ride a range that goes on forever
So saddle up, git along, ride out, ride tall
Gitty-up, yippe-yeah, yippie –yi is the call
All a cowboy needs to survive is a range and a pony to ride
So saddle up, git along, ride out, ride tall
Gitty-up, yippe-yeah, yippie –yi is the call
C/ Rick Pickren
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