Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, You are excused.

[Delmonico]

BTW, most don't know it, but Arlo and Officer Obie became very good friends that lasted till Officer Obie passed on.

[Delmonico]

The church where Alice and Ray lived, now owned by Arlo and used as a museum and a meeting place for public events.



The Resteraunt.



Arlo is gettin' old.

Today:



Then.

[Leo Tanner]

Wow, neat pitchures Del.  I'm sure Woody is very proud a his son even though he did that song 'bout flyin inta Los Angeleese.
     The man an his story of the masacre are now ferever icons in Americana.


Leo

[Ozark Tracker]

I heard Arlo talkin on something about Woody once, he said when they got money and moved to New York, he went to a school where they sang this land is your land every morning, one morning the teacher asked Arlo why he wasn't singin,  she asked him if he didn't know the words or what was the matter,
he told her yes he knew the words, his father had written the song,  teacher didin't believe him, sent him to the principal, Principal didn't believe him, almost kicked him out of school before they finally found out the wasn't lying.



but ma favorite of Woody's  is Oklahoma Hills,  saw once where it was the most requested song in California in 1932,  lots of Okies went west durin the Depression.


Many a month has come and gone
Since I've wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma hills
Where I was born

Many a page of my life has turned
Many lessons I have learned
And I feel like in those hills
Where I belong

CHORUS:
Way down yonder in the Indian nation
Ridin' my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born

Way down yonder in the Indian nation
A cowboy's life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma Hills where I was born

But as I sit here today
Many mile's I am away
From the place I rode my pony
Through the draw

Where the oak and black-jack trees
Kiss the playful prairie breeze
And I feel back in those hills
Where I belong

CHORUS

Now as I turn life a page
To the land of the great Osage
In those Oklahoma hills
Where I was born

Where the black oil rolls and flows
And the snow white cotton grows
And I feel like in those hills
Where I belong

[Texas Lawdog]

Del, It's one of my favorites as well.  Hank Thompson does a purty fare rendition of it too.  I got to meet Hank years ago when I was working off-duty at a CW club that was opne on the weekends. Hank lived up in Okla. somewhere just north of the Red. He would used the house band at the club. I still like to hear those old songs about Oklahoma even though I'm not an Okie by birth.  The term OKIE was dubbed because of all of them that migrated to CA. during the "Dust Bowl".

[Leo Tanner]

My ex wife's granma was from OK.  She said in her day bein called an Okie was just as bad as any other racial slur.  Sometimes when we'd be out in public she'd think she overheared someone sayin it an get real mad.  It took some convincin ta get her calmed down.


Leo

[Ozark Tracker]

some of my mom's side of the family, Coles,  went out there, some of em came back years later, several of em stayed and prospered,  they have a big Cole gathering  every summer out by Medesto.  I think my Uncle said last year there were 400 -500 people there.

[Leo Tanner]

That's where they shot American Grafitti.  You can still recognize alot of it from the movie.


Leo

[Ozark Tracker]

I was out there years ago to see their farms,  I think there's only one of the ones I know still alive, one of my Mom's cousins.  years and years ago, he and his mother would come back to visit my grandmother,  he used to come ever year back to Oklahoma and visit, guess he got just too old to make the trip.   Bullet Cole was his name,  don't remember what his real first name was, never heard em call him anything but Bullet,  he raised onions and what ever other vegatables, just outside Dos Palace

[Delmonico]

OT, Gene just sang Oklahoma Hills on my tune box, (Radio cut)  Also told me to chew Wrigleys Spearmint gum.

[Texas Lawdog]

Gene was born in Texas but spent a lot of time in Oklahoma before he became famous. They named a town after him and they have a museum for him and they have a Gene Autry festival every year.  One time when I was on a trip to LA, I went to the Western Heritage Museum that he opened. It was great.

[Delmonico]

Gene was born in Texas but spent a lot of time in Oklahoma before he became famous. They named a town after him and they have a museum for him and they have a Gene Autry festival every year.  One time when I was on a trip to LA, I went to the Western Heritage Museum that he opened. It was great.

Bruce Dillman, the guy in charge of the feasable was a friend and customer till he passed on about two years ago.

[Texas Lawdog]

It's really not that far from here to go up there. I am ashamed to say that I have never been. I am planning to go this coming year, now that I'm retired. Del, Would you look at my signature and see if I got that Lyric from Ian's song right.The one we talked about at the Muster

[Delmonico]

I had no irons in the fire

[Texas Lawdog]

They have a Jamboree up there in June and a Film Festival and Cowboy poetry in September near Gene's Birthday(29th?).  It only takes a couple of hours to drive up there. I may go up there in June and September.

[Curley Cole]

Ozark Traker

Do any of your Cole kin hail from the Mass. area? My real name is Anthony Cole. All my kin are from Lynn and Peabody Ma. My pappy was named Willard Cole, and he sorta "got around"

My daughter in law has done a lot of research and we got the Coles back to about 1780. And some of them were from New York...

small world.

Its a small world its a small small world......Now that tune will be stuck in yer head all day....

nite
curley

[Tensleep]

My real name is Bill Cole and I'm from Texas but have no relatives we ever talked about from Mass.

My great grand parents moved to Texas from Alabama, story is the earlier ones had moved there from Georiga and before that from Virginia.
There is a big family of Coles in Maryland so I'm told.

Really strange thing is Ozark Tracker and my family have the same picture of a relative.

[Ozark Tracker]

Curley,  most of my Coles were in Missouri by the later 1800's then on in to Oklahoma by  the turn of the Century,  I don't remember any from Mass.

I remember reading in one of the books that my uncle researched, some of the first of our Coles, had a brother I think that was in New Jersey,  I'd have to get the book out to see for sure what the names and years were.

[Texas Lawdog]

OT, What part of Texas?