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:
“Grown onto every inch of plate, except
Where the hinges let it move, were living things,
Barnacles, mussels, water weeds—and one
Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time:
The origins of art.”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)
“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)
“It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)