Home on the Range; Bury me not on lone prairie; Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here

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I'm checking some "anonymous" sayings listing in the American Heritage Dictionary of Quotations.


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CONNECTICUT, "LAND OF STEADY HABITS"

There are some "Steady Habits" in the 1790s; it's definitely associated with Connecticut by about 1800. I haven't checked the Adams papers.

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Woodworth, Samuel, 1784-1842 [Author Page]
NEW-HAVEN: A POEM.  42Kb , [from The poems, odes, songs, and other metrical effusions (1818)] [Durable URL for this text]
Found 5 hit(s).
...Here moral worth and " Steady Habits" reign, While Vice and...
...still we trace The " steady habits" of your fathers' race;...
...attorneys as "the land of steady habits," who all grow rich...
...cannot be, Candour and " steady habits" won't agree; An age...
...thought, The term of " steady habits" lured me here, And...

Chester, Leonard, 1750-1803 [Author Page]
Federalism Triumphant in the Steady Habits of Connecticut Alone (1801)  278Kb
...4050 Federalism Triumphant in the Steady Habits of Connecticut Alone (1801)...
FEDERALISM TRIUMPHANT IN THE STEADY HABITS OF CONNECTICUT ALONE, OR, THE TURNPIKE ROAD TO A FORTUNE. A COMIC OPERA OR, POLITICAL FARCE IN SIX ACTS, As performed at the Theatres Royal and Aristocratic at Hartford and New-Haven October, 1801.   [Durable URL for this text]
Found 16 hit(s):
2 FEDERALISM TRIUMPHANT IN THE STEADY HABITS OF CONNECTICUT ALONE ,...
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...the well born , our steady habits, and well arranged systems,...
...ponderancy to keep up our steady habits, cheer up Colonel, build...
...those alone, we maintain our steady habits, the priests will flinch...

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"BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE"

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http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/cowboy-songs/001543.HTM
A cowboy is dying. He asks to be taken home and buried in his family home. His request is ignored; he is buried in a small and isolated prairie grave Probably adapted from "The Ocean Burial," written by Rev. Edwin H. Chapin (1839). For the complex question of the tune, see the notes on that piece. - RBW

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http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/dcml/2002-April/018545.html
<<John BAuman and English cattle broker wrote in 1877 of hearing the young
cowboys in the evening singing their favorite wail "O bury me not on the lone
prairie,/ Where the coyotes howl and the wind blose free." Another Englander,
this time a woman named Mary Jaques lived a while in Texas and described the
favorite song of the Texas cowboys as "then bury me not on the lone prairie,/
With the turkey buzzard and the coyote/ In the narrow grave six foot by
three." She recalled hearing the entire song sung one cold winter night by a
cowboy tenor "with a great deal of pathos" in a minor key. Not too long
afterward the singer was killed by lightning. Jaques' writing was published
in 1894 but I don't know what time she was in Texas. The publication of the
William Jossey version in 1907 was described above. Likewise the Annie Laurie
Ellis version in JAF in 1901. Neither had the familiar tune. Another printing
of the song was in 1905 as part of "Folk Songs of the West and South"
harmonized by Arthur Farwell. The title here was "The Lone Prairie" and
contained the first line "O bury me out on the lone prairie" with a footnote
saying that in some version "out" is "not". The song appeared in the first
edition of John Lomax's "Cowboy Songs" in 1910 with lyrics paraphrasing "The
Ocean Burial" Lomax called it "The Dying Cowboy". Again the tune is not the
most familiar one. The Thorp publication and claim of attribution is
desecribed above. J Frank Dobie (1927, Ballds and Songs of the Frontier Folk)
disputed Thorp and said there was an unmarked grave near Brady, Texas that
locals said belonged to the cowboy that wrote the song. Dobie himself
believed the true author would never be known. A source told Vance Randolph
that the song was "made up" by Venice and Sam Gentry who herded cattle in
Texas in the 1870's.    >>

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TWO MONTHS A COWBOY.
G. F. BLANDY.. Forest and Stream; A Journal of Outdoor Life, Travel, Nature Study, Shooting, Fishing, Yachting (1873-1930). New York: Nov 1, 1888. Vol. VOL. XXXI., Iss. No. 15; p. 283 (2 pages)
First page:
Several had good  voices and when "The Dying Cowboy" was sung all was still except the clear voice of Dick as he sang:

"Oh bury me not on the lone prairie,
Where the coyotes howl, and the winds they blow."

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"HOME ON THE RANGE"

Nothing on Newspaperarchive?

The American Heritage Dictionary has "ANONYMOUS, cowboy song, 1860s or earlier." Also: "Folk music expert John A Lomax first recorded this song in San Antonio, Texas, in 1908, from a 'Negro singer who ran a beer saloon out beyond the Southern Pacific depot, in a scrubby mesquite grove' (_Folk Song U.S.A._). Not sung so often nowadays is the third verse: 'The red man was pressed from this part of the West,/He's likely no more to return/To the banks of the Red River where seldom if ever/Their flickering campfires burn."

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The Official story of "Home on the Range"... years, a Lawsuit was filed on the original writing and music of "Home on the Range". ... Goodwin had written the words of a song entitled" My Arizona Home" and Mrs ...
raven.cc.ku.edu/heritage/kssights/home/official.htm - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

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NPR : Home on the Range, Present at the Creation... the territory, and cowboys constantly on the move, "Home on the Range" spread across the ... So it became 'My Colorado Home' and 'My Arizona Home,'" Averill says. ...
www.npr.org/programs/morning/ features/patc/homeontherange/ - 24k -
April 29, 2002 -- When Dr. Brewster Higley sat down on the banks of Kansas' Beaver Creek in 1872 and jotted down the lines that would become "Home on the Range," he had little notion that his words would reverberate well into the next century.

By the time he died in 1911, the rest of the country had little idea of the song's true origins. As it trickled across America, on its way to the Oval Office and the Rocky Mountains, the legacy left to Dr. Higley by his most famous contribution to American culture was one of anonymity.


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$500,000 SUIT HINGES ON SHIFTING OF NOUNS; Authors Charge That 'Arizona Home' Was Changed to Make 'Home on the Range.'
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jun 15, 1934. p. 3 (1 page):
Mr. and Mrs. William Goodwin, authors in 1905 of "Arizona Home," began suit yesterday in Federal court charging that "Home on the Range," a song much sung on the radio, was in reality an adaptation or their own words and tune.

The plaintiffs charged that the defendants, who include publishing houses and several individuals, departed from the spirit of the original piece by turning singular nouns into plurals and vice verse.

So that the court had before it the following delicate example:

"Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
There seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the sky is not cloudy all day."

As against:

"Oh give me a home where the buffaloes roam,
Where the deers and the antelopes play
There seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day."


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"I EXPECT TO PASS THROUGH THIS WORLD BUT ONCE..."

The American Heritage states:
"_Bartlett_'s points out that this has been attributed to many people, and most often to Stephen Grellet, a French QUaker cleric, who came to the U.S. in 1795. But no attribution has been verified."

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Article 3 -- No Title
Friends' Intelligencer (1853-1910). Philadelphia: Mar 20, 1869. Vol. 26, Iss. 3; p. 37 (1 page):
"I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I will not pass this way again."

Article 1 -- No Title
Advocate of Peace (1847-1906). Washington: Jan 1872. Vol. 3, Iss. 37; p. A2 (1 page):
A worthy Quaker thus wrote: "I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore there can be any kindness I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I will not pass this way again."

(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
Disraell and His Wife.
Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Dec 1, 1894. p. 16 (1 page):
_Its Origin_

The quotation beginning, "I expect to pass through this world but once," has been inquired for many times and sought diligently. Somebody has found the idea expressed in a little poem bu Joseph A. Terney:

"Through this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass.
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To any suffering fellow-man,
Let me do it while I can.
Nor delay it, for 'tis plain
I shall not pass this way again."

And somebody else writes that he has discovered that the quotation, almost exactly as used by Pro. Drummond, is from the epitaph on the tomb of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire.
--_Book Buyer_.

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   St Joseph Herald  Saturday, February 27, 1869 Saint Joseph, Michigan
...thus I ex pect to PASS THROUGH THIS WORLD BUT ONCE there be any kindness I.....thing to and work he or at least try ONCE more. BUT he was unequal to the and..


   Coshocton Democrat  Tuesday, December 15, 1874 Coshocton, Ohio
...who wrote, expect to PASS THROUGH THIS WORLD BUT ONCE. If, therefore, there be.....liftedthe honseand-jami mod his head' THROUGH the head screamed flrei 'and..

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OVERSEXED, OVERPAID, OVERFE, AND OVER HERE

A 1944 date is probably good enough for this WWII quotation.

(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
Leonard Lyons Says:
The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: Apr 30, 1944. p. S6 (1 page):
In London the story is being told of an American official who was anxious to discover the nature of the British complaints against the American soldiers based there. He finally asked one Britisher: "What do you think is wrong with the American soldiers?"...The Britisher answered: "Well, they're over-dressed, they're over-paid, they're over-sexed and they're over here."

Joe Legion, Private First Class; Mr. Sherwood gives a close-up of the man who will help liquidate Hitler. Joe Legion, Private First Class Joe Legion, Pfc.
By ROBERT E. SHERWOODLONDON (By Wireless).. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: May 28, 1944. p. SM5 (3 pages)
Third page:
"There's a great gag going around the camp. It's about what is the only trouble with them American troops in England--they're overpaid, over-decorated, over-sexed--and over here."


Handy Booklet Insures If Diplomat Dooms Us, He Will Do So Politely; Be Assured That If the End Comes Our Envoys Will Be Impeccably Dressed
By Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer. The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: Mar 6, 1949. p. S1 (2 pages)
Second page:
We must, of course, overlook the probably painfully true crack about our heroes, current in England at that time "--(they're overpaid, oversexed and, worst of all, _over here_."

BRITISH WIT
VET [1917]. Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Mar 23, 1950. p. 12 (1 page):
"Oversexed, overpaid, and over here."