"Measurin' Calico"
18" x 24" Oil on Canvas
There is a great Old Cowboy song from Utah titled, "Blue Mountain." It is a wonderful folk song from a young Texas cowboy who has escaped the law and taken refuge working cows in Utah. It was a pretty wild life, Mormon Girls notwithstanding. There was a General Merchandise Store owned by a man named Mons. The song is very descriptive of his life on the range and elsewhere. It's a song I first heard on a record by the great Frank Hamilton and one of the verses goes something like this:
"I trade at Munz's (sic) Store, And there's bullet holes in his door. His calico treasure my pony can measure When I'm drunk and I'm feelin' sore." |
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