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:
“The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: “Look what I killed. Aren’t I the best?””
—Katharine Hamnett (b. 1948)
“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)