Horses 1, Cowboys 0. The Strawberry Roan keeps his reputation intact while breaking this poor cowboy's pride. Watch Murph perform this clasic tale by Curley Fletcher.
My dad always sang this song to my redheaded mom as she was turning gray. She would laugh and I would smile and we had an old strawberry roan Appaloosa with a spotted hindquarter blanket and a gorgeous white mane and tail. My dad was always called to catch a bull with a neighbor because they could hold the biggest bulls between them with their ropes. My dad's gone now and so is old Patch. Thank you for talking and for singing. Another thing about old Patch....if you were going through a gate, never lift your leg to miss the old post....he'd set off in a rodeo buck that you'ld have a hard time riding. He was my horse from age 12 to whenever! Gathering the herd, checking cows, and 4-H shows....every single class! People loved him, but he definitely could eat out of a 55 gallon barrel and still look for Indians. Thank you MMM!!!
my dads favorite he just turn 91 on the21st of june ....he used to work on the avro arrow installing cockpits still lost his job never going to nasa still a cowboy
Great version of this old favorite! Thank you. Some sing a sort of chorus: Oh, that strawberry road (2x), That old cayuse ain't never been rode; The man who gets on him is bound to get throwed; Oh, that strawberry roan.
Yeah buddy!! Our daddy was an old cowboy, bronc rider, n horse trainer; he n mom saw you several years ago in Raton, New Mexico and we all grew up with your music. Your talk before the song sure brought back some memories of growing up in SW Oklahoma 🙃
@@dareisnogod5711 had it not been for your comment I’d have never been brought back to this video. Thanks for that. Also don’t be a spelling nazi, no one likes it. You understood what I meant.
Carly Fletcher was my grandfather my mother is Don Fletcher and my grandmother was Marie Fletcher! God bless you all I was in the Marines in Beirut 1982! I am going to get a find a way to get in contact with you!
Songs like this always leave me considering "might have been." I had a job line riding job lined up out of high school, high Sierra, maintaining drift fences and general cowboying. Then the owner pretty much lost his shirt in grain futures and had to sell his herd to cover the shorts. So, I went to college instead. Strange old life.
Awesome!!! I used to day dream about what busting Broncs would have been like in the old west when I was a kid putting in long slow days with my first gelding in high school. Once he and I hit the trail I used to sing this song to him for hours running threw the hills of southern Oregon. Thanks for sharing!!!
the one thing remember the most is what it felt like when I hit the ground!!! old dan could like a rodeo horse and we never put on a buck strap.after he bucked you off he would wait for you to get back on again and head quietly head for the barn!!dam I loved that horse!!! we had different horses but none like old dan!!!
my grandmother told us that her great grandfather was the real man who caught and rode the strawberry roan. I don't know where they were but the ranch owner didn't pay so he sneeked in and let it go. I don't really know but he was a wrangler on some big ranches. I still have the saddle hanging in barn. used for many years after that
I first heard this over 50 years ago and I remember a chorus that went between the verses- Oh, that strawberry roan, Oh, that strawbery roan, Dah dah dah..... - I can't remember the words.Dang! Anybody out there know where I can find them?
The specified chorus can be heard at the start of Gene Autry's popular movie titled "The Strawberry Roan." I recall that version well because, a couple of years after the film's 1948 release, Autry sang it at the opening of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo in the early '50s, where I was introduced by the Mayor to both Mr. Autry and his current equine Champion. (Like you, sir, that chorus has been stuck in my head for all these decades since. Dang!)
