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)
“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)
“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)