Riding In The Saddle
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There is only one version of this song, which is a live performance with a 12 string acoustic guitar
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Down Under [Royal Music LP and Illegal Noise CD (titled Over & Out)]
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lyrics version 1
[Spoken, with a sung section]
I started performing songs in 1956, publicly, but I started writing songs a little bit before that. Don’t remember a lot of the songs but eh one of the songs I wrote was a cowboy haha cowboy song, ah-ha. Back in the days when we used to play cowboys and indians. And eh hand, hand me that guitar Charles. It's a twelve string, em, looks like an eleven string. OK, I used to sing this on the ukulele but I don’t have a ukulele anymore so I’ll sing it t', yeah. This is from 1955 or 54 and a half
Ri... Oh it had a use of [Clicks tongue] had eh the horsebeats eh, for percuss'
Riding in the saddle
While going ‘cross the plain
Moving on whenever I can
But stopping when it rains
The only one to talk to is my good old trusty horse
[Laughs]
Well, well that’s about the speed of it. My sisters and I used to sing 'em these songs when company would come over, and eh we’d sing Country Church Country People, and you know I did harmonies. And eh we’d sing eh Hard Luck And Bad News Blues, which was about me getting beat up all the time and I, I eh fantasised this song as though I were a, really in a, a down and out position instead of just a little kid getting beat up all the time. Hard Luck Bad News Blues, from about 1958 or 59
I started performing songs in 1956, publicly, but I started writing songs a little bit before that. Don’t remember a lot of the songs but eh one of the songs I wrote was a cowboy haha cowboy song, ah-ha. Back in the days when we used to play cowboys and indians. And eh hand, hand me that guitar Charles. It's a twelve string, em, looks like an eleven string. OK, I used to sing this on the ukulele but I don’t have a ukulele anymore so I’ll sing it t', yeah. This is from 1955 or 54 and a half
Ri... Oh it had a use of [Clicks tongue] had eh the horsebeats eh, for percuss'
Riding in the saddle
While going ‘cross the plain
Moving on whenever I can
But stopping when it rains
The only one to talk to is my good old trusty horse
[Laughs]
Well, well that’s about the speed of it. My sisters and I used to sing 'em these songs when company would come over, and eh we’d sing Country Church Country People, and you know I did harmonies. And eh we’d sing eh Hard Luck And Bad News Blues, which was about me getting beat up all the time and I, I eh fantasised this song as though I were a, really in a, a down and out position instead of just a little kid getting beat up all the time. Hard Luck Bad News Blues, from about 1958 or 59