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9 I have seen the fruits of rambling, I know its hardships well $ I have crossed the Rocky Mountains, rode down the streets of hell ; I have been in the great Southwest where the wild Apaches roam, And 1 tell you from experience you had better stay at home. |
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DIAMOND JOE *
d. No. 537. J. B. Dillingham, Austin, Texas, 1935. See Lo.i, p. 65; Od.2, p, 130.
"Diamond Joe was a Texas cattleman,-the story goes, so rich that he was said to wear diamonds for his vest buttons. I learned this song years ago," says J. B. Dillingham, for fifty years a conductor on Houston and Texas Central trains running out of Austin. |
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1 Old Diamond Joe was a rich old jay, With lots of cowboys in his pay 3 He rode the range with his cowboy band, And many a mav'rick got his brand.
* Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, pp. 6$—66 (New York: MacmiUan, 193S) |
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