Lyr Add: Round-up Lullaby

Subject: Round-up Lullaby
From: Stewart
Date: 13 Nov 00 - 06:14 PM

Recently a couple people have asked me about the song Round-up Lullaby (aka, Cowboy's Lullaby, Desert Silver Blue). It's not in the DT database, but I did find thread from a year ago Desert Silver Blue. I have sheet music of this song from 1938 as arranged for the Men's Glee Club at Pomona College. I used to sing this song as a member of the Glee Club. The words are by a cowboy-poet, Badger Clark (1883-1957), the poet laureate ("lariat") of S. Dakota, set to music by Clifton W. Barnes. Badger Clark also wrote the words to "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" ("A Border Affair"). Anyway, here are the words and a link to a midi tune.
ROUND-UP LULLABY — words by Badger Clark*, music by Clifton W. Barnes

Desert blue and silver in the still moon-shine,
Coyote yappin' lazy on the hill,
Sleepy winks of lightin' down the far sky-line,
Time for millin' cattle to be still,

Chorus
So, now, the lightnin's far away,
The coyote's nothin' skeery,
He's singin' to his dearie,
Hee-ya, tam-ma-la-le-day!
Settle down, you cattle, till the nornin'.

Nothin' out the hazy range that you folks need,
Nothin' we kin see to take you eye,
Yet we got to watch you or you'd all stampede,
Plung-in' down some 'roryo bank to die,

Chorus

Always seein' way-off dreams of silver blue,
Always feelin' thorns that stab and sting,
Yet stampedin' never made a dream come true,
So I ride around myself and sing.

Chorus

* From "Sun and Saddle Leather," Richard G. Badger, publisher (1920).
Digital Tradition thread, Badger Clark
S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Round-up Lullaby
From: Stewart
Date: 13 Nov 00 - 06:20 PM

Oops, here is the midi CLICK TO PLAY