Goodbye Old Paint
First recording and first release by "Mac" (Harry McClintock) (March 23, 1928 / December 1928)
- Written by
- [Traditional]
- Language
- English
- Comments
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Traditional cowboy song first collected by songwriter, N. Howard "Jack" Thorp in his 1921 book Songs of the Cowboys. The black cowboy and fiddler, Jess Morris, said he learned the song from a black cowboy named Charley Willis when he was seven years old in 1885. Morris said Willis told him he learned it from others during a cattle drive in 1871.
NOTE: There is a different cowboy song called I Ride an Old Paint and both Works can have performances titled "Old Paint" that will typically be credited as traditional, so without audio of the performance it will be difficult to assign them. However, the 1928 Goodbye Old Paint by Harry McClintock has elements of both songs so they may actually have common origins.
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