The tradition of old West balladry had begun in the 1860s when Texan cattle drovers adapted some of the most famous ballads from the English, Scottish and Irish canon.What was it that inspired hard-bitten cowboys to compose such gems as "The Streets of Laredo" and "Git Along Little Dogies"?
"Well, I bit you git to tell some good yarns down at the pub".
Whenever I think I ought to trade in my beloved motor, I envisage a factory in China belching out black smoke, six-lane highways in Dallas and some git illegally flattening Ecuadorian rainforests and think: "What difference would it make?" A selfish cop-out, I know, but I kid myself that my other efforts balance things out.
Her name is Ape "Gi" Git Nasa8eg Wastew, which means Little Flower of the Snow, but she asks us to call her Francine.
The former grumpy Scots git, the previous holder of the Most Peevish and Sulky (and Boring-Voiced) British Sportsman Alive Trophy, was transformed into a sensitive, charming youth weeping a pool of regret and shame, and asking his audience to understand how he felt.
"Git back and git them cows," hissed Alonzo Lago two hours later, leaning over his face.
Don't talk so loud or you don't git any — you nor no man.
Thaire gaunny suffer whin ah git home tonight.
"Fold your arms, see, git one shoulder up and your head down.
We'll git you down to Cheyenne and you can ride the train a where your mother is, your folks, Rawlins, whatever.
Maybe I can git Tom to bring you up, say in July or August?
