Origins of Refrain
"The Old Chisolm Trail" is a well-known cowboy song. In all versions of the song, the refrain was:
- Come-a ti yi yupi, yupi ya, yupi ya
- Come-a ti yi yupi, yupi ya
Ed Cray in "The Erotic Muse" credits a variation of these lyrics to high school and college students in southern California:
- Gonna tie my pecker to my leg, to my leg
- Gonna tie my pecker to my leg
Read more about this topic: Tie My Pecker To My Leg
Famous quotes containing the words origins of, origins and/or refrain:
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour’s wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence—that sort of innocence. With the result that we’re now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)