cole porter

[cleofus1]

i just love singing this song...cole porter definitely genius!

Don't Fence Me In
Words & Music by Cole Porter
Recorded by Bing Crosby & The Andrews sisters, 1944
From the movie "Hollywood Canteen"


A G A D D6sus4 D D9 G/B D A D
Oh, give me land, lots of land under star - ry skies above --

G D A
Don't fence me in.

A7 Em7 A7 Em7 A7
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love --

A7(V) Gdim D
Don't fence me in.

A7 D DM7 D7 D7/9 D9
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze,

G G/F# Em7 Gm7
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees;

D F#m B7
Send me off forever but I ask you please,

E7 A7 D
Don't fence me in.


D7 G G/F# Em7
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle

G/B D G D
Underneath the western skies

D7 G G/F# Em7
On my cayuse, let me wander over yonder

G/B A7 Em7 A7
Till I see the mountains rise

A Em7 A D DM7 D7 D7/9 D9
I want to ride to the ridge where the West com - men - ces,

G G/F# Em7 Gm7
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses;

D F#m B7
I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences --

E7 A7 D
Don't fence me in.

[cleofus1]

1. ok...

i know a cayouse is a horse...but whats a hobble?

[XNASA]

2. A shack or a small house?

:shrug:

[XNASA]

4. Scratch that.

I was thinking of 'hovel'.

[Ron Green]

3. Maybe it's a restraint, something you'd put on a convict or a horse.

[MuseRider]

5. Hobbles

Funny, I just happened in here after reading a post my son asked me to look at in a different thread.

Hobbles are a restraint for horses. Most often rawhide, they look like handcuffs. You put them on your horses front legs just above the hooves. The horse can still walk though slowly and not far. Cowboys used them when they rested on the prairie where there was no place to tie their horses. That way they could always find them. Good western horses are always hobble broke.