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)
“Lucretius
Sings his great theory of natural origins and of wise conduct; Plato
smiling carves dreams, bright cells
Of incorruptible wax to hive the Greek honey.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)