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"All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" (Roud 346) [1] or The Ploughman's Song is an English folk song about the working life of horsemen on an English farm in the days before petrol-driven machinery. Variants have been collected from many traditional singers - Cecil Sharp observed that "almost every singer knows it: the bad singer
"The Blizzard" is a tragic love story and a man's relationship with a horse, Dan, as the two are caught in a harsh blizzard in the rural countryside. The man's love for a woman named Mary Anne, to whose house he is destined, is also a key part of the story.
His songs about horses ("El Moro de Cumpas"), roosters ("Hoy Platiqué con Mi Gallo" — more on that in a bit), and the village life always found him at his most exuberant, especially in ...
The melodic system of the two songs is also similar, with the middle of the three repetitions of the phrase being sung to a similar melody, but down a scale degree. [10] The melody has also been used in American songs such as "Ain't I Glad I Got out the Wilderness" and "Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans", and in turn is related to the ...
The song tells a story about the adventures of a man and his horse, a courageous, sun-colored, green-eyed stallion he nicknamed the "Tennessee Stud". The song's timeline appears to take place during a period of over twenty years, beginning in 1825 and ending after the Great Flood of 1844.
"Beer for My Horses" is a song recorded by American country music artists Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. It was written by Keith and Scotty Emerick for Keith's seventh studio album, Unleashed . The song was released as the album's fourth and final single on April 7, 2003.
It has become one of the best-known cowboy songs, found in dozens of collections of American folk music and performed on numerous recordings. [1] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [2] The song tells the story of a bragging horse breaker who meets his match in a picturesque ...