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Get Along, Little Dogies

from Old​-​Time Songs by Martha Burns

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The Texas woman who sang her version of “Get Along, Little Dogies” for pioneer folk song collector John Lomax in 1910 called it “the loveliest of cowboy songs.” Though references to the song go back to the 1880s, the first commercial recordings did not appear until 1928 when two separate sides came out, on different labels, within months of one another. One was by Harry “Mac” McClintock, whose “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” made the same year, would launch him to musical fame. The other was by Jack and Bernard Cartwright, from Munday, Texas, who performed together for not quite three years as the Cartwright Brothers.

My version comes from the Cartwrights’ recording. I love its meditative air, and the last verse, where the singer daydreams of a fortunate marriage.

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As I was a-walking one morning for pleasure,
I spied a cowpuncher a riding alone.
His hat was thrown back, his spurs was a jingling
As he approached me a singing this song.

Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, get along, little dogies,
It’s your misfortune and none of my own.
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, get along, little dogies
For you know Wyoming will be your new home.

It’s early in the springtime we round up the dogies,
And mark them and brand them and bob off their tails,
Drive up the horses, load up the chuck wagon,
And throw those dogies out on the trail.

Whoopi-ti-yi-yo….

It’s whoopin’ and yellin’ and driving those dogies,
Oh, how I do wish that you would go on.
It’s whoopin’ and yellin’, go on, little dogies,
For you know that Wyoming will be your new home.

Whoopi-ti-yi-yo….

If ever I marry, it will be to a widow,
With six little orphans, not one of my own.
If every I marry, it will be to a widow,
With a great, big ranch and a ten-story home.

Whoopi-ti-yi-yo….

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from Old​-​Time Songs, released October 13, 2021

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Old-time American folk songs the old-time way.

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