[Castration of the] Strawberry Roan - [Dick Foran & The Sons of the Pioneers] - 78rpm Party Record
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- This is the infamous 1943 recording of the "Castration of the Strawberry Roan" by the Sons of the Pioneers. This was recorded while the Sons of the Pioneers were doing their Dr. Pepper Radio stint. Lyrics below:
The Strawberry Roan
[Horse whinnies and then farts. Someone yells "Whoa!"]
I was hanging 'round town
In a house of ill fame
Laying up with a twister
Of hustling dame
When a hop-headed pimp
With his nose full of coke
Beat me out of the girl
And left me stone-broke
When a stranger walked in
Said he, "Say, my lad
Are you any good riding
Horses that's bad?"
Said I, "You damn right
That's one thing I can do
I'm a second rate pimp
But a good buckaroo.
"Bring on your bad horses
I never saw one
That could set to guessing
Or bother me none."
Said he, "Guess again
There's one horse that I own
You might have heard of him
The strawberry roan."
"Well I guess we've all heard
Of that of that ball bearing stud
He had the fessudic [epizootic]
And glanders and crud.
"He's the worst fucking bronco
That has ever been foaled
He's never been road
And he's twenty years old."
O, that strawberry roan
How many colts has he thrown?
He's got gonorrhea and cankers and syph
He's strictured with clap
But his cock is still stiff
That renegade strawberry roan.
Well, the upshot of it was
That I found myself hired
To snap out some colts
That great stud had sired.
They were knot-head cayuse's
Just like their Dad
Most of them roans
But all of them bad.
With their feet in my pockets
Those bastards would fight
Till my ass drug my tracks out
Way before night
My balls in my boots
And my mouth full of dung
My ears were all scratch
Where I got my spurs hung
Then the boss came in
He said, that's enough
The strawberry roan's colts
Are too God damned tough
"I'm damn sick and tired
Of seeing you taking them falls
Rope that wind-milling stud
And we'll cut out his balls"
O, that strawberry roan
We went out to unbend his bone
We built a big loop
And went in the corral
We roped his front feet
He farted and fell
We flattened that strawberry roan
Well, the boss held his head
While I hog-tied his legs
I reached for my jack-knife
And went for his eggs
When I opened his bag
Why, he let out a moan
And he squealed like a pig
When I cut out that stone
But all I could locate
Was one of his nuts
The other was hidden
Some place in his guts
So I rolled up my sleeve
And swimming in blood
I felt for the seed
In the guts of that stud.
I thought that I found it
I felt something pass
But its only a turd
On the way to his ass
Just then I heard one of them
Blood curdling squalls
And I looked and the roan
Had the boss by the balls
Well, I stomped on his head
It was no use
He was just like a bulldog
He wouldn't let loose
So I untied his legs
And he got to his feet
But the boss's voice changed
And I knew he was beat.
O, that strawberry roan
We advise you to leave him alone
He's a knot-headed cayuse
With only one ball
But the boss is a eunuch
With no balls at all
Lay off of that strawberry roan.
[The sound of a fart.] "Whoa! You son of a bitch!" "Awww horseshit"
Note that neither the song or tune was written by Glenn Ohrlin although he does know a version of the Castration of the Strawberry Roan. Glenn's version was recorded by Max Hunter in 1964 and again by Lou Curtis in about 1978. The Curtis recording is found on the LP Just Something My Uncle Told Me (1981). Baxter Black also knows a version of The Castration of the Strawberry Roan.
In 1943, while they were in New York, Dick Foran and the Pioneers (the Dr. Pepper crew) were asked to sing "The Strawberry Roan" for the Dr. Pepper annual stockholders and board of directors' meeting. Someone found the alternate words Curley had written, "Castration of the Strawberry Roan" and the guys recorded it privately as a joke. Dick Foran sings the solo with the Pioneers backup.
For more information please read Guy Logsdon's cowboy songs book The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing page 86 and following.
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This is a Cowboy Classic my Dad played this 78 for me when I was kid. True Western Cowboy Classic 🤠 👏 👌 🤣 😂
OMG! This is classic stuff.
I'm a collector of Edison cylinder recordings and this is as good as any Prohibition song I've ever heard.
Now to go through my collection of 78's. Wouldn't this be a gem of a find.
Thanks for posting!
i was involved in the making of a cd called CELEBRITIES AT THEIR WORST VOL 3, and this is on there under the name of SONS OF THE PIONEERS
This is an extremely rare recording. Logsdon (Baxter Black's father in law) devotes a chapter to it in his book, but it was obvious that, at that time, he had never heard it.
Holy moley!! i raised & trained horses, but had only ever heard the
regular (sanitized) version of this song. (Cryptorchids are rare, but
it's major surgery to change them into geldings.)
Some years ago at an estate sale I picked up a few "stag party" 78s, one of which is a 12" of this song,
but though this singer's voice sounds close to the one on my record, there are significant differences.
The label on mine is plain white with a hand-written title.
I like it better than the version in this video.
David O'Banion Well, upload it, already!!
Unbelieveable! I started searching for "I'll take you home again Kathleen" from
Rio Grande a sweetly sentimental songsung by these guys...... and I end up with this ode about whores, pigs, coke-sniffing pimps, farting and castration!
I have one sided 78 with this song on it and it is signed by each of the sons of the pioneers
Was this really The Sons of the Pioneers?
I’m shocked! They seemed so wholesome and classy.
Didn’t expect anything like this, I’m surprised this sort of recording was allowed at the time too?
Was this really The Sons of the Pioneers?
I’m shocked! They seemed so wholesome and classy.
Didn’t expect anything like this, I’m surprised this sort of recording was allowed at the time too?
GEEEEEEZE! This is FUNNY! OUCH!
Baxter Black also knows a version of The Castration of the Strawberry Roan. Please read Guy Logsdon's cowboy songs book _The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing_ page 86 and following.
Actually - the word is epizootic and it's the veterinary version of an epidemic.
About eight stanzas down there is a question mark by the word fessudie. Maybe because the lyric writer wasn't familiar with it or the spelling? Taking a wild guess here, but I'm thinking the word is 'epizudic", sort of old fashion slang for an ailment, but nothing specific. However, my grandmother did once refer to the epizudic as a flu virus. But in this case, the epizudic could be any equine illness that attacks a horse of the roan's particular disposition to make it more evil. :)
Perhaps consider reading this before making comments of this type, Sherri P....."The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing: And Other Songs Cowboys Sing"
By Guy Logsdon. There is an article titled, "The Castration of the Strawberrry Roan", that might give you some insight.
@stupidshitsucks Doesn't change FACT it was made, produced and sold. Just because it doesn't get airplay doesn't change the fact it was done.
Do you have this record??
Such vulgarity! Why I never.
Last 15-20 years? Not a single one in the song that wasn't in use since well before the 1930s-40s.. You obviously don't know a lot about the history of colloquial language, the American cowboy (they weren't angels OR characters in a '50s TV show), or the history of radio and the recording industry. Do consider actually researching something before making long-winded pontifications on something you obviously know nothing of....
right, in the late 50s and all through the 60s lots of artists made party records, even good old andy Griffith, most of his were clean enough, jerry clower , brother dave gardner, way too many to name, some were a little to rough but most were accepted in all their glory and fifth
Was this really The Sons of the Pioneers?
I’m shocked! They seemed so wholesome and classy.
Didn’t expect anything like this, I’m surprised this sort of recording was allowed at the time too?
That's messed up
Sorry the tune was not written by Glenn Ohrlin though he does know a version of the Castration of the Strawberry Roan. Glenn's version was recorded by Max Hunter in 1964 and again by Lou Curtis in about 1978. The Curtis recording is found on the LP Just Something My Uncle Told Me (1981).
BTW, yes this IS the Sons of the Pioneers. This was recorded in 1942 while they were doing their Dr. Pepper Radio stint.
I’m shocked, really didn’t expect this from such a wholesome, classy group. Sort of ruined my view on them.
Didn’t they also do a lot of christian themed songs?
wow
amazing that todays generation that live in the filth and degradation of todays america doubt this was recorded by this group. this is about average for party records of the time. i'm 81 and i have quite a few of the old party records from the past, good old andy made a few himself, family style and adult also. all we have today are recordings and a few videos of the past. i'm sure todays fans would be shocked if they could sit in one of the old honky tonks and hear their legends working the crowds.
Well said.
Good thing Tipper Gore wasn't around for this one..