{"id":124,"date":"2016-02-03T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:22:14","slug":"zebra-dun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/zebra-dun\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebra Dun (Jack Thorpe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zebra Dun\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OtJ_eDnopG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is another cowboy song from Cisco Houston, off that first <em>American Folk Songs<\/em> album, which I&#8217;ve kept singing pretty regularly as a kind of <em>apologia pro vita mia<\/em>. Growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the child of two professors, it was obvious that my roots were different from Woody&#8217;s or Cisco&#8217;s, or from all the heroes of the pirate and western sagas I liked to read. So this ballad about someone who looks like a city dude and talks educated English, but is nonetheless an authentic cowboy, had a special appeal.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-125  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/thorpsongs.jpg?resize=174%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/thorpsongs.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/thorpsongs.jpg?resize=185%2C300&amp;ssl=1 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m clearly not the only one who felt that way, since a lot of other singers have recorded this over the years, starting with Jules Verne Allen in 1928. Allen was one of the first genuine cowboys to record, and his name suggests the literary tastes that sent a lot of boys (and some girls) west in search of adventure. One of them was N. Howard &#8220;Jack&#8221; Thorpe, who first collected this song from someone named <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Randolph Reynolds on New Mexico&#8217;s Carrizozo Flats in 1890, and included it in <em>Songs of the Cowboys<\/em>, the first issued collection of cowboy songs, which he self-published in 1908. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recently picked up a copy of Thorpe&#8217;s memoir, <em>Pardner of the Wind<\/em>, which explains that he was born in New York in 1867, the son of a wealthy lawyer, and grew up between there and summers in Newport, honing his riding skills by playing on a polo team with <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-126\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/jack-thorpe.jpg?resize=219%2C229&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"229\" \/>Theodore Roosevelt. He went west in his teens, and by 1890 was a full-fledged cowboy, working as an &#8220;outside man,&#8221; which\u00a0meant his job was to travel beyond the home ranch in search of cattle that had strayed into other herds. In the process, he was visiting all the other ranches and camps in southern New Mexico, and along the way he picked up a lot of songs &#8212; though he explains that most came it bits and pieces, a verse here and a verse there, and &#8220;many of the songs had to be dry-cleaned for unprintable words before they went to press.&#8221; He refers to this song as &#8220;The Educated Feller,&#8221; and writes, &#8220;It&#8217;s as typical of the range as ants in chuck wagon biscuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another cowboy song from Cisco Houston, which I&#8217;ve kept singing pretty regularly as a kind of apologia pro vita mia. 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