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04 Nov 12 - 06:13 AM (#3430744) Subject: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller Help. I'm calling at a cowboy-themed party in a couple of hours and I need a song to sing round the 'camp-fire' If they were a couple of years younger I might get away with "The wheels on the wagon go round and round". I don't think Streets of Laredo will suit. Any ideas?
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04 Nov 12 - 07:06 AM (#3430757) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller Do boa constrictors eat cowboys? Wiki says they live in N., S, & central America |
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04 Nov 12 - 08:07 AM (#3430770) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: wordfella "I ride an old paint, and I lead an old dan..." (Git Along, Little Dogies) |
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04 Nov 12 - 08:42 AM (#3430789) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker The perfect cowboy song for young kids; recorded specifically for young kids, and the first-ever music record my parents gave me back in the early 1960's Roy Rogers - A Cowboy Needs a Horse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saJQM1fOU4Q very easy to learn quickly... |
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04 Nov 12 - 08:50 AM (#3430793) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Amos Yippee Ki Yi Yi, Git Along, Little Dogies
I Ride an Old Paint |
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04 Nov 12 - 08:58 AM (#3430795) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Bettynh Roundup Lullaby was always a favorite campsong for me. |
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04 Nov 12 - 11:57 AM (#3430854) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Louie Roy Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail |
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04 Nov 12 - 01:44 PM (#3430897) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: katlaughing oh give me a home where the buffalo roam [Home on the Range] etc. used to be in our schoolbooks I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) |
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04 Nov 12 - 02:18 PM (#3430917) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Rog Peek "A Four-Legged Friend" Roy Rogers Certainly was a favourite of mine when I had my cowboy outfit for Christmas. Rog |
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04 Nov 12 - 02:19 PM (#3430918) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle When we were about seven, we used to sing Cowboy Billy had a six foot willy He shoowed it to the girl next door She thought it was a snake So she hit it with a rake Now its only two foot four (pre- decimilisation - you see!) |
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04 Nov 12 - 02:23 PM (#3430920) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller Good songs but too hard for them to learn on the spot and pick up in 2 minutes. I wanted a song that was easy to join in and would give them a breather from the energetic dancing without giving them a chance to get out of hand (without being too babyish). So in the end, we sat round an imaginary campfire, and one of the cowboys told a story about a friend (just in case boas and cowboys didn't happen in the same place) - we sang "(I'm Being Swallowed by a) Boa Constrictor". And while they were eating, I wrote (with help from the musician) one to the tune of Keep That Wheel A-Turning / Johny's lost his marble / In and Out the Windows (just the chorus not the verse)
Riding on the Prairie (x3) |
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04 Nov 12 - 02:37 PM (#3430927) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller "A Cowboy Needs a Horse" is a good one. I didn't see it soon enough (but maybe if we do another....) I'd forgotten the A Four-Legged Friend. Another good one (though verses 2 & 3 are perhaps not relevant for 7-year-olds) |
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04 Nov 12 - 02:41 PM (#3430929) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller Big Al - well really! It was "My friend Billy" when I was at school, but you don't expect me to recite that with parents present. There's a difference between rhymes that kids tell each other and songs that they are taught by respectable adults. And I want to be booked again. |
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04 Nov 12 - 04:07 PM (#3430971) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST,henryp From Our Singing Country by John Lomax Doney Gal "One time my uncle came to see us folks on our ranch in Oklahoma. When he got ready to go the rain was pouring down, but the weather didn't stop him. We watched him ride over the hill headed for the roundup, singing his favorite cowboy song; "It's rain or shine, sleet or snow, Me and my Doney Gal are bound to go." He was a good singer, too. He called his horse 'Doney Gal, his sweetheart. None of us ever saw him again." Mrs. Louise Henson, San Antonio, Texas. Doney Gal |
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04 Nov 12 - 04:50 PM (#3430993) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle The thing is, I AGREE THE OBJECT OF THE EXCERCISE IS TO GET BOOKED - BUT ARE ACTUAL COWBOY SONGS GOING TO HELP YOU IN THIS. (sorry about the caps) They were a grim lot, living in hardship, and by all accounts, their ideas of entertaining each other didn't rise much above the bestial. I think maybe the Hollywood cowboys have a better musical legacy. The first song I learned on the ukulele, when I was a kid was Ole Faithful (We Rode the Range Together) - which I believe is still the song of Hull Kingston Rovers. Kids would like Roy Rogers's songs like A Four-Legged Friend. Don't Fence Me In - presents a nice Zane Grey landscape with a catchy chorus. So does Cool Water. And Ragtime Cowboy Joe, I used to like that when I was a kid. You've got to sugarcoat the pill a bit. Get them singing, and you can slip in a folksong, or two. |
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04 Nov 12 - 04:52 PM (#3430994) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller Thanks. I like that one too. Of course the next party will no doubt be a completely different theme, possibly whatever the latest kids film is. Any songs for a Gruffalo party, anyone? |
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04 Nov 12 - 04:58 PM (#3430999) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller Cross-posted there. I like the Doney Gal - though it's not a joining-in song. Yes, Al, I was looking for something to 'get them singing'. Mudcat seems pretty good at kids' songs as well as 'proper folksongs' whatever they may be. |
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04 Nov 12 - 05:16 PM (#3431004) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle Doris Day - The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!) |
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05 Nov 12 - 06:07 AM (#3431196) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Bert Buttons and Bows |
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05 Nov 12 - 06:13 AM (#3431198) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Bert Three Wheels on My Wagon |
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05 Nov 12 - 08:40 AM (#3431255) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: s&r Long Tall Texan [lyrics] Stu |
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05 Nov 12 - 03:12 PM (#3431447) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: MarkS Try "Windy Bill." Great song about a steer roper who comes out second to the steer! |
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05 Nov 12 - 07:14 PM (#3431575) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Dave the Gnome Been lonsome in the saddle since my horse dropped dead Give me a home where the buffalo roam and I'll show you a house full of buffalo shit :D |
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06 Nov 12 - 11:29 AM (#3431834) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST,Desi C A Four-Legged Friend, the old Roy Rogers song is pretty good, and one I heard when I was 7 and fired my imagination, Cool Water is great |
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06 Nov 12 - 12:49 PM (#3431872) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: PHJim Sorry Mo, I'm too late for this party, but when my boys were thre or four, I used to bounce them on my knee and sing: I'm a cowpoke poke, poke, pokin' along, I live a peaceful life of ease, I do my livin' as I please I'm a cowpoke pokin' along. It's an old Gene Autry song that I had a record of when I was a kid. You could probably google it. |
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06 Nov 12 - 12:53 PM (#3431879) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: MMario Happy Trails (to You) |
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06 Nov 12 - 12:57 PM (#3431884) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: PHJim I found Gene's Cowpoke Pokin' Along on Youtube: Gene Autry's Cowpoke Pokin' Along |
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06 Nov 12 - 01:03 PM (#3431887) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Amergin When I was that age, I loved hearing about Billy the Kid and Jesse James. |
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09 Nov 12 - 11:32 PM (#3433999) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: PHJim Lead Belly's When I Was a Cowboy |
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10 Nov 12 - 02:34 AM (#3434021) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: JohnInKansas While songs from the general "cowboy" tradition are fine, if grade schools are even vaguely similar to a hundred years ago when I was there the music books used in the schools likely will have at least a few songs with suitable themes that the kids will already know. While it's obviously too late for a program "in a couple of days" my suggestion would have been to call the nearest gradeschool and see if you can contact the "music teacher" or at least learn what book(s) they're using at around 1st or 2d grade (in the US). Obviously what's taught may have changed since I was 7 years old, but since in Kansas teaching has gone backward another hundred years but other schools have claimed to have "gone forward," you might get lucky and find what you want if you happen to live where it's "tweeny." That's about the right age for "Cub Scouts" and a "Pack Leader" or "Den Mother(?)" might know what songs the kids would be likely to know, but with this approach you'd need to give equal time to the girl groups(?) - political correctness and all that. John |
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10 Nov 12 - 09:02 AM (#3434117) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST Just a thought, these days - 2012 - how many British 7 year olds actually know what a cowboy is ? How would they when barely any Cowboy TV Shows and movies have been produced & broadcast in the last 20 or 30 years ? Not many rug rats would have been sat in front of the telly watching "Deadwood". |
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10 Nov 12 - 08:59 PM (#3434519) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: PHJim I'm Going To Leave Old Texas Now Old Texas (The Cowman's Lament) |
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10 Nov 12 - 09:06 PM (#3434524) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Joe Offer How about I'd Like to Be a Cowboy (But I'm Afraid of Cows)?
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10 Nov 12 - 10:10 PM (#3434557) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: GUEST,mg 7 year olds love My Home’s in Montana (I Wear a Bandanna)..lots of threads on that song here..people just love it. mg |
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11 Nov 12 - 05:06 AM (#3434627) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Mo the caller I'm not sure how many 7 yr olds know about cowboys, or how and what this lad knew about them, but he wanted a Cowboy themed party. My most recent memory (and I now only watch news and recorded quiz shows, not childrens TV) is the ad for the cowboy Milky Bar Kid - is that still on? |
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11 Nov 12 - 01:44 PM (#3434824) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: Bonzo3legs I should think you could use anything non PC just to keep normality going!! |
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11 Nov 12 - 02:02 PM (#3434837) Subject: RE: Cowboy songs for 7 year olds From: PHJim Joe's suggestion reminded me of "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)." I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande But my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow Never roped a steer cause I don't know how And I sure ain't a fixin to start in now Yippie yi yo ki yay |