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Day 168 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
First published by Sandburg, he writes: "An atmospheric sketch from Charles J. Finger, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, editor of "All's Well,” and author of “Tales from Silver Lands” and other books. It is a species of Cowboy blues, the “range rider’s moan. Finger says, It is strangely like a song I heard among the Argentine gauchos:
No tengo padre, no tengo madre;
No hermana, no hermano;
O no! O no! O no!
"Which may be translated, "I have no father, I have no mother, nor brother, nor sister, and so on.”…The first verse here may be used as a chorus for all succeeding verses. "
Day 168 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
First published by Sandburg, he writes: "An atmospheric sketch from Charles J. Finger, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, editor of "All's Well,” and author of “Tales from Silver Lands” and other books. It is a species of Cowboy blues, the “range rider’s moan. Finger says, It is strangely like a song I heard among the Argentine gauchos:
No tengo padre, no tengo madre;
No hermana, no hermano;
O no! O no! O no!
"Which may be translated, "I have no father, I have no mother, nor brother, nor sister, and so on.”…The first verse here may be used as a chorus for all succeeding verses. "
