Lucky Mud: Music

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Maggie's family have been cattlemen in Florida for over 200 years, and this song is for them. When cattlemen call their cattle, many use a type of yodel - something that carries across vast and open land. You'll hear this in the song as well. This is for the centuries of hard-working, decent men and women who make their living off cattle, and off the land.

I'm a West Florida wrangler
And I live on a ranch
I come from a long line
Of Cracker cowhands
My life's in the saddle
With my dog at my side
We run the cattle, patch fences
And keep our eyes on the sky

There's a storm up there brewin'
It rolls out of the Gulf
It meets the hot air from over
The land where we work
The livestock will stand it
'Til the lightnin' gets bad
Then they'll take off and run
Down into the Swamp
(yodel)

I'm a Cracker cowboy
That's all that I know
I live on the Florida Gulf Coast
I love this old land
That I've lived on so long
Unlike the cattle
And the tourists
I like bein' alone

We go down in the swamps
With our thick leather boots
The kind that the moccasins
And the briars can't get through
We round up the cattle
Head 'em out of the bog
To the thick, green pastures
And the clover they love
(yodel)

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