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Pages in category "Songs about horses" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Chestnut Mare" was the first UK Top 20 hit that the Byrds had achieved since their cover of Bob Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do" had peaked at number 4 in September 1965. [9] [12] Although the U.S. single release featured the full-length album version of "Chestnut Mare", in the UK and Europe a severely edited version of the song was issued ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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
Ten Broeck won the race before a record crowd of 30,000. The song commonly states that Ten Broeck "was a big bay horse", and although he was a bay, he was "very compactly built". [6] The song refers to a fatal outcome, which did not in fact occur; Mollie McCarty lived nearly five more years, winning multiple races and producing three foals. [7]
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.
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 ...