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| − | '''"Buttons and Bows"''' is a 1947-48 American pop song and one of the first popular country songs.<ref>Blood, Peter, and Annie Patterson. ''Rise Up Singing''.</ref> It was written for the 1948 movie ''The Paleface'', where [[Bob Hope]] sang it in a hillbilly voice, but was previously released as a record by [[Dinah Shore]] in 1947.<ref>http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/b/buttons_and_bows.html</ref> It is sometimes considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. | + | '''"Buttons and Bows"''' is a 1947-48 American pop song and one of the first popular country songs.<ref>Blood, Peter, and Annie Patterson. ''Rise Up Singing''.</ref> It was written for the 1948 movie ''The Paleface'', where [[Bob Hope]] sang it in a hillbilly voice, but was previously released as a record by [[Dinah Shore]] in 1947.<ref>http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/b/buttons_and_bows.html</ref> It is sometimes considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. In Dinah Shore's version, she is begging to leave the countryside and go to the city, and promises that: {{cquote|I'll love you in buckskin,<br>and skirts that I've homespun<br>But I'll love you longer, stronger, where<br>your friends don't tote a gun<br> |
| + | My bones denounce<br>the buckboard bounce<br>and the cactus hurts my toes<br>Let's go where I'll keep on wearing those frills and flowers and buttons and bows<br>rings and things and buttons and bows.}} | ||
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfW9-0EzYxA Song] sung by Dinah Shore | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfW9-0EzYxA Song] sung by Dinah Shore | ||
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[[Category:Country Songs]] | [[Category:Country Songs]] | ||
Latest revision as of 22:13, October 25, 2019
"Buttons and Bows" is a 1947-48 American pop song and one of the first popular country songs.[1] It was written for the 1948 movie The Paleface, where Bob Hope sang it in a hillbilly voice, but was previously released as a record by Dinah Shore in 1947.[2] It is sometimes considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. In Dinah Shore's version, she is begging to leave the countryside and go to the city, and promises that:
| “ | I'll love you in buckskin, and skirts that I've homespun But I'll love you longer, stronger, where your friends don't tote a gun My bones denounce |
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References
- ↑ Blood, Peter, and Annie Patterson. Rise Up Singing.
- ↑ http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/b/buttons_and_bows.html
External links
- Song sung by Dinah Shore