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"The Strawberry Roan" is a classic American cowboy song, written by California cowboy

Curley Fletcher Carmen William "Curley" Fletcher (18921954), also known as Curley W. Fletcher and Curley Fletcher, was an American composer of cowboy songs and cowboy poetry. A prolific creator of this material, he is best remembered for the classic cowboy song "T ...

and first published in 1915, as a poem called ''The Outlaw Broncho''. By the early 1930s, the song had become famous; in 1931 it was sung by a cowboy in the Broadway play ''

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''. It has become one of the best-known cowboy songs, found in dozens of collections of American folk music and performed on numerous recordings. Members of the

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chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. The song tells the story of a bragging

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who meets his match in a picturesque strawberry roan.

References

External links

A complete history and exegesis of the song from ''Ranch & Riata'' magazine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strawberry Roan 1915 songs Western music (North America) Songs about horses