Post Quiz: Cowboy Song Fill-in-the-Blank - Answers
Created | Updated Apr 29, 2019
Post Quiz: Cowboy Song Fill-in-the-Blank - Answers
The joy of folk music? Predictable, yet unpredictable. How well did you do at guessing these deathless lyrics? We recommend this book. We had to leave some good ones out for reasons for political correctness.
- 'Bury me not on the lone prairie,
Where the coyotes will howl over me.
In a narrow grave ____________'- just six by three
- ''Tis a bummer, too, they call me now1,
But what cares I for praise?
It's oft, says I, for the days gone by,
It's oft do I repine
For the days of old when we dug out the gold
In the days of _____________'- forty-nine
- 'Jesse James was a lad that killed a-many a man;
He robbed the Danville ______.
But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
Has laid poor Jesse in his grave.'- train
- 'Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where _________ is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.'- seldom
- 'Oh, a ten-dollar hoss and a forty-dollar saddle,
And I'm goin' to punchin' Texas _____.'- cattle
- 'The antelope and buffalo.
The rabbit jumps so high;
It's whack the cattle on, boys,
______ or die.'- Root hog
- 'As I walked out in the streets of ______,
As I walked out in _____ one day,
I spied a poor cowboy wrapped up in white linen,
Wrapped up in white linen as cold as the clay.'- Laredo
- 'Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little _______,
It's your misfortune, and none of my own.'- dogies
- 'I am one of a band of highwaymen, Cole Younger2 is my name;
My crimes and _____________ have brought my friends to shame.'- depredations
- 'Kind friends, you must pity my horrible tale,
I am an object of pity, I am looking quite stale,
I gave up my trade ____________________
To go hunting gold in the dreary Black Hills.'- selling Right's Patent Pills
No, we don't know what was in Right's Patent Pills, either.
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