{"id":8249,"date":"2018-05-01T06:35:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:49:46","slug":"id-like-to-be-in-texas-for-the-roundup-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8249","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Like To Be In Texas For The Roundup In The Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Texas_Roundup.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Texas_Roundup.mp3\"> I&#8217;d Like To Be In Texas For The Roundup In The Spring &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nI was hoping to find a nice Spring song for May. Camilla was helping me do research and she came across this. It turns out to be one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/western100.com\/songsbyrank.htm\">top 100 cowboy songs<\/a> of all time and I had never heard it. I recorded it in a big hotel while looking across the Hudson River at New York City.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n[D] In a lobby of a big hotel in [Em] New York town one day,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\n[G] Sat a bunch of fellows [A] telling yarns to pass the time away.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8[D] They told of places where they\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d been [Em] and all the sights they\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d seen,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\n[G] And some of them praised [A] Chicago town and others [D] New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>[D] I can see the cattle grazing o\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;er the [G] hills at early morn;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\n[D] I can see the camp-fires smoking at the [A] breaking of the dawn,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\n[D] I can hear the broncos neighing I can [G] hear the cowboys sing;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\n[D] Oh I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d like to be in Texas for the [A] round-up in the [D] spring.<\/p>\n<p>In a corner in an old arm chair sat a man whose hair was gray,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nHe had listened to them longingly, to what they had to say.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nThey asked him where he\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d like to be and his clear old voice did ring:\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>I can see the cattle grazing o\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;er the hills at early morn;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nI can see the camp-fires smoking at the breaking of the dawn,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nI can hear the broncos neighing I can hear the cowboys sing;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nOh I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>They all sat still and listened to each word he had to say;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nThey knew the old man sitting there had been young in his day.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nThey asked him for a story of his life out on the plains,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nHe slowly then removed his hat and quietly began:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;ve seen them stampede o\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;er the hills,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8when you\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d think they\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d never stop,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;ve seen them run for miles and miles until their leader dropped,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8I was foreman on a cow ranch\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s the calling of a king;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I can see the cattle grazing o\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;er the hills at early morn;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nI can see the camp-fires smoking at the breaking of the dawn,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nI can hear the broncos neighing I can hear the cowboys sing;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nOh I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.<br \/>\nI can hear the broncos neighing I can hear the cowboys sing;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\nOh I\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;d like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: I&#8217;d Like To Be In Texas For The Roundup In The Spring &#8211; Click To Play I was hoping to find a nice Spring song for May. Camilla was helping me do research and she came across this. It turns out to be one of the top 100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;d Like To Be In Texas For The Roundup In The Spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}