335. The Range of the Buffalo


335 The Range of the Buffalo

'The Range of the Buffalo.' Sung by J. A. Lomax. Recorded at Blowing
Rock, Watauga county, August 1936.

 

It hap - pened in Jack Bor - ough in the year of sev'n - ty -

 

 

three, A man by the name of Clea - gle, — Came step - ping-

 

 

to me, Says, 'How do you do, young fel - low ,- And-

 

 

how'd you like  to go,-

 

And spend one sum - mer

 


pleas - ant - ly on the range of the Buf - fa - lo?'

 

For melodic relationship cf. ***ASb 270, 'The Buffalo Skinners' ; the meter,
however, is different.

Scale: Hexatonic (4), plagal. Tonal Center: d. Structure: abb^ai (4,4,4,4).