Posted on 07/02/2011 5:25:46 PM PDT by Krankor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY
Amen, brother...and this from a card carrying agnostic.
Put the saddle on the stove, Mama, cause we’re ridin’ the range tonight!
“Don’t Fence Me In” came out in ‘45. I was 4 at the time and remember hearing the music. I don’t know if I saw the movie (I doubt it), but the song is forever in my mind.
Yes, the quality of movies has turned fecal in the last 30 years.
Wasn’t it a Bob Hope movie?
This movie was on TCM last evening and I enjoyed it.
Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were heroes when I was a little kid.
As well as Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, My Friend Flicka, Johnny Yuma (The Rebel), Cheyenne Body, Rowdy Yates and Festus for the rest of us.
“Don’t Fence Me In” came out in ‘45. I was 4 at the time and remember hearing the music””
I was 9 and I still remember it. My big sister played it OVER and OVER and OVER on the piano until our father forbid her to play it anymore in his presence!!! Have never forgotten that.
Can anyone fill me in on the rest of this song line?
“Why oh! why, did I ever leave -———————?”
The rest is a blank with me. Come on, old timers, help me out here.
If you enjoy listening to good ole cowboy music then go to:
www.bostonpete.com. O. J. Sikes plays them and I have been listening to that site for many years. Love the music.
I don’t remember that line.
I just found out a few years ago Cole Porter, the king of the urbane lyric, wrote that song. Amazing. But you can hear it in the absolute perfection of the sound.
Here is the full lyric. Cole Porter was a marvel of writing sound poetry, as good as Poe, IMHO.
Read them out loud and compare it to Poe’s poem, The Bells.
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 murmur of the cottonwood trees,
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don’t fence me in.
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies.
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise.
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can’t look at hovels and I can’t stand fences
Don’t fence me in.
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies,
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 murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don’t fence me in
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise.
Ba boo ba ba boo.
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can’t look at hobbles and I can’t stand fences
Don’t fence me in.
No.
Poppa, don’t you fence me in
I wanted to be Roy Rogers and Dale Evans child. I even got a postcard from them once.
Wore my cowboy boots until my feet were almost Chinese-bound.
OK, here’s some fun trivia.
Anyone who has enjoyed “The Adventures of Robin Hood” with Errol Flynn - Trigger was the horse Olivia DeHavilland rode through the forest. He was called “Golden Cloud” at the time.
Nope. Roy did co-star in a couple of movies with Bob Hope, but not “Don’t Fence Me In”. I got home in time last night to see the last two on TCM. I always loved Roy over Gene Autry, but both were huge from the mid ‘30’s to early ‘50’s. I am looking right now on my wall at a poster signed by Roy himself.
“I don’t remember that line”
It’s not from Don’t Fence Me In” - it’s a song or at least part of a song that’s been swimming in my head for a few days and I absolutely cannot remember the rest of that line or even what song it is.
Was it not: “Why Oh why did I leave OHIO?”
OHIO
(Bernstein/C/G)
Doris Day
Why oh why oh why oh
Why did I ever leave Ohio?
Why did I wander to find what lies yonder?
Life was so cosy at home
Wondrin’ why I wander
Why did I fly, why did I roam?
Oh why oh why oh did I leave Ohio?
Maybe I’d better go
O-H-I-O
Maybe I’d better go home
Why did I wonder
To find what lies yonder?
Life was so cosy at home
Wondrin’ why I wander
Why did I fly, why did I roam?
Oh why oh why oh did I leave Ohio?
Maybe I’d better go
O-H-I-O
Maybe I’d better go home
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