What’s that I hear? A Texas steer
a 1917 popular song
words and music by Douglass Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Out in Texas with the hooking cows
Is where I always long and always crave to be
Tell me honey, do you ever think of me?
I have told you these same things before
The way you treat me honey, I will have to go
If you love me you will have to tell me so
You’ll have to tell me so
Chorus
For the Hooking cow Blues
Oh, those Texas cow Blues ring in my ear
I seem to hear and see them dancing
Prancing out on the ranch
Oh, those Hooking cow Blues
Oh, those Texas cow Blues
I’ve surely got the Hooking cow Blues
(What’s that I hear? A Texas steer)
- When a woman sees the man she loves
Her mind rocks like a ship upon a stormy sea
All I want is someone just to hear my plea
My best friend done turned his back on me
And if his heart ain’t iron it must be marble stone
I just hate the day I ever left my home
I left my happy home
Sung here by Fred Feild: