From: Lynn Arnold Sparks
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:42:17 EDT
Subject: Re: Triple K Ranch songs
To: cb-kern@listbox.com

Trying to get my brain to go back 20+ years doesn't work as well as it used to--but I recall putting "Raunch" camp lyrics to the tune of the song "Away with Rum". Most of them come back to mind--there's one phrase that won't surface:

The Song of the Triple K Ranch Staff
We're coming, we're coming, our bright little band.
On the downwind of horses we do take our stand.
We don't ever ride them because we do feel
That people who do so are likely to keel. (over, that is)

Chorus:
Away, away with horses, of course.
Horses of course, horses of course.
Away, away with horses, of course
The song of the Triple K Ranch Staff.

We never brush horses, we think its a crime.
You never can rid them of dirt and of grime.
To rid a proud horse of her natural "cest",
Would ensure that she'd never perform at her best.
Chorus

We never feed horses, we think its absurd.
For each little oat turns into a turd.
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Chorus

Sorry about the missing phrase--anyone else? I don't remember ever writing it down. The "proud" horse, of course, referred to Gypsy, the big black draft mare that Laura Huffman liked so much. And "cest" was a reference to "Cesty", the decrepit blue station wagon we hauled food in. I'm sure the health department wouldn't have thought much of her, but no one ever died of food poisoning.

I think I do have the lyrics of Tennessee Stud written down somewhere, but I'll have to look it up. I'm headed for Kern today for a weekend of Family Camp so maybe the atmosphere there will help me remember.

Tally-ho!
Lynn Arnold Sparks, Ranch staff 1972-1979

From: Amy (Rietman) Vershel
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:57:43 EDT
Subject: Ranch songs
To: cb-kern@listbox.com

I'm one of those people that holds onto way too much stuff, but I
still have my notebook from 1976-79 with camp songs! Here are the
lyrics Lynn was missing :

We never feed horses, we think its absurd
Fore each little oat turns into a turd.
Cleaning the stalls in itself is okay,
but we really get tired of recycled hay.

The dust in the barnyard is really quite thick.
To teach a class init could make us quite sick.
So therefore we won't teach our classes today.
We'll just go to the old barn and lay in the hay.

We love main camp trail rides, we fight for the chore.
A walk around the lake is really a bore.
The horses eat grass, the kids scream and cry.
And good old Charlie Brown just heaves a great sigh.

I hadn't thought about that song in years, but I can hear the tune and
picture the dancing that went with it!

Amy (Rietman) Vershel
Ranch camper/staff 1973-79

[Thanks, Amy!]

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From: JOELLEN (PEASE) MULLINS To: stuart@friendsofkern.org Date: Wed, June 11, 2003 7:41 pm Subject: RANCH SONGS 1992-1994 EACH SUMMER HAD IT'S OWN THEME SONG 1992 THEME SONG -"RODEO" by GARTH BROOKS 1993 THEME SONG-"SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COWBOY" by TOBIE KEITH 1994 THEME SONG-"MAMA DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW-UP TO BE COWBOYS" by "ORIGINAL" RANCH CAMP FAVORITES: BANNER BANNER WAS A SHOW HORSE AND I WISH HE WERE MINE HE LOVED LESSON RIDING BUT DID TRAILS JUST FINE IN THE SHOW RING OR ON THE HUNT COURSE BANNER WAS ALWAYS MY FAVORITE HORSE SOME LIKE THE GRAY MARE SOME LIKE BIG BAY BUT I'LL LOVE MY BANNER TILL MY DYING DAY HIS COAT WAS CRIMSON HIS BLAZE WAS SNOW WHITE HIS HEART WAS PURE HONEST FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT BANNER WAS A SHOW HORSE AND I WISH HE WERE HERE IT'S HARD THINKIN ABOUT HIM WITHOUT SHEDDING A TEAR MA- MA MA - MA MA-MA MA-MA, LOOK AT ME LOOK WHAT CAMP KERN DID TO ME TOOK AWAY MY WALKING SHOES GAVE ME A PAIR OF RIDING BOOTS SOUND OFF 1 - 2 SOUND OFF 3 - 4 BRING IT ON DOWN NOW....1 2 3 4 1, 2, 3, 4! MA-MA MA-MA, DON'T COME YET WE HAVE HORSES TO GO GET RIDING, CATCHING, PICKING FEET THEN IT'S TIME FOR US TO EAT SOUND OFF.....1 2 SOUND OFF.....3 4 BRING IT ON DOWN NOW.... 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1, 2, 3, 4! MA-MA MA-MA, DON'T YOU FRET IF I COME HOME SOAKING WET WE RIDE HORSES RAIN OR SHINE WE RDIE HORSES ALL THE TIME SOUND OFF .....1 2 SOUND OF......3 4 BRING IT ON DOWN NOW....1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1, 2, 3, 4 ! MA-MA MA-MA THE END IS NEAR HOPE MY HORSE DOESN'T SHED A TEAR I'LL BE BACK AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!!! SOUND OFF .....1 2 SOUND OFF.......3 4 BRING IT ON DOWN NOW.....1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1, 2, 3, 4! can't remember all of this one but i bet susanna hinkle can....OR IT'S NAME MY BACK IS ACKIN MY GIRTH'S TOO TIGHT MY HORSE IS SHAKIN FROM LEFT TO RIGHT OTHER RANCH CAMP FAVORITES: PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON sang by BEN CABANAS (at every campfire) YOU'RE MA MA DON'T WEAR NO SOCKS SUGAR-SUGAR an ANGI HARTMAN REES favorite LINGER FROM JOELLEN (PEASE) MULLINS