Come along boys and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on the old Chisholm trail. Come a ti yi yippee ... As he approached me a-singing this song. It's me bein' out of employment ...

Born in Mississippi and raised in Texas, he grew up immersed in the songs of the cowboys on the Chisholm Trail. Lomax transformed his passion into his first book, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier ...