{"id":149,"date":"2016-02-05T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:05:40","slug":"rambling-gambling-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rambling-gambling-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambling, Gambling Man (Cisco Houston)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rambling, Gambling Man\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bnmyIT06tw8?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>Cisco again. I sang this one constantly as a kid, which must have sounded pretty funny. As an interesting commentary on how the standards of the folk song scene have changed, Cisco referred to this as a traditional song, but Guy Logsdon, in his notes to the Smithsonian\/Folkways CD of Houston&#8217;s work, describes it as Cisco&#8217;s composition, or at least adaptation, noting that he recorded it for a commercial label, Decca Records, in the early 1950s and it was also published as sheet music in 1952.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-329 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_9975-207x300.jpg?resize=177%2C257\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_9975.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_9975.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My battered and coverless copy of Cisco&#8217;s songbook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These days, we are more likely to hear people criticizing Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and others for &#8220;stealing&#8221; traditional melodies and lyrics, so it&#8217;s worth remembering that there was a time when folksingers were at least as likely to pawn off their compositions or adaptations as &#8220;traditional.&#8221; John Jacob Niles famously presented several of his own compositions as traditional, then got very irritated when other folksingers copyrighted &#8220;Black is the Color,&#8221; for example, as a Public Domain song they had collected and arranged.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, this is another romantic Western ballad, based on an older song called &#8220;Roving Gambler,&#8221; and a good example of the sort of middle ground between what cowboys sang out west and what cowboy folksingers sang back east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco again. 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