Grab Your Saddle Horn and Blow (I Grab My Saddle Horn and Blow)

Bob Nolan
Original copyright: 1940

I’ve been all around this country.
Guess I’ve traveled everywhere.
Been from coast to coast and way down south.
I know the tang of frosty air.
I like the feel of saddle leather.
I like the way my pony sways.
As he moves along, I’ll sing this song
And go rovin’ all the rest of my days.

Refrain:
When I feel the urge I got to travel
Anywhere the tumbleweeds grow.
Happy when my feet are scratchin’ gravel,
I grab my saddle horn and blow.
You may think a certain place has got me
And from there I never will go.
But, you son of a gun, I’ll bet a hundred to one
I grab my saddle horn and blow.
I grab my saddle horn and blow

Also known as "I Grab My Saddle Horn and Blow". This typically rollicking early Bob Nolan song was apparently written for the Columbia film, Texas Stampede, but we have been unable to obtain a print of the film to verify this. In his early years, Bob Nolan moved around the country at will and never quite forgot the thrill of "leaving.”

It was recorded for the radio transcriptions Othacoustic Symphonies of the Sage and for the Lucky U Ranch program.

Although was recorded several times for radio transcriptions it was never released in LP format by the Sons of the Pioneers. The sheet music was included in Bob Nolan's Folio of Original Cowboy Classics No. 2, 1940, by American Music, Inc.

Grab Your Saddle Horn and Blow (American Music, Inc.)

SONS OF THE PIONEERS TRANSCRIPTION RECORDINGS

Orthacoustic Symphonies of the Sage (064090)

Teleways Radio Productions transcriptions, Nos. 53, 116, and 192

Lucky U Ranch radio show (courtesy of Larry Hopper)
- Transcriptions disc TR-81/ 82 (November 12, 1951)
- Transcriptions disc TR-308/309 (April 2, 1952)