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Cattle Call
by Tex Owens
"My late husband was a real cowboy, he really rode the
range, and at one time he worked for the King Ranch.
This is the way I remember him telling how he wrote the
song 'Cattle Call': 'I was sitting in the office
building on the eleventh floor of the Pickwick Hotel in
Kansas City, Missouri, waiting to do a broadcast on KMBC.
Snow began falling. Small flakes at first, then big
ones, so big they blotted out my view of the buildings
through the window. Now, I grew up on a ranch and I used
to do a lot of cattle feeding and in winter I could
never help feeling sorry for the dumb animals out in the
wet and cold. Sitting there in the hotel, watching the
snow, my sympathy went out to the cattle everywhere, and
I just wished I could call them all around me and break
some corn over a wagon wheel and feed them. That's when
the words , 'cattle call,' came to my mind. I picked up
my guitar and in thirty minutes I had wrote the music
and four verses to the song." |