{"id":13995,"date":"2022-10-03T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:06:37","slug":"i-ride-an-old-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/i-ride-an-old-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"I Ride an Old Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BILL:\u00a0 KEY OF D &#8211; Traditional 1927<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">I ride an old paint, and I lead an old dan,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to Montana, to throw the hoolihan,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">They feed &#8217;em in the coulees, they water in the draw,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">Their tails are all matted, their backs are all raw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">Ride around little doggies, ride around &#8217;em slow,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">For the Fiery and the Snuffy, are rarin&#8217; to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">Old Bill Jones, had a daughter and a son,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">Son went to college, and the daughter went wrong.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">His wife got killed, in a bar room fight,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">Still he keeps singin&#8217;, from mornin&#8217; &#8217;til night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">When I die, take my saddle from the wall,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">Put it on my pony, and lead him from his stall,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">Tie my bones to his back, turn our faces to the West,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">And we&#8217;ll ride the prairie, that we love the best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILL:\u00a0 KEY OF D &#8211; Traditional 1927 I ride an old paint, and I lead an old dan, I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to Montana, to throw the hoolihan, They feed &#8217;em in the coulees, they water in the draw, Their tails are all matted, their backs are all raw. Ride around little &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/i-ride-an-old-paint\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Ride an Old Paint<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}