Texas Matters: What Tin Pan Alley Says About Life In 'The Wild West'
The song “Life in the West” became popular in the 1840s. The lyrics, written by American poet George Pope Morris, evoke the call of the fertile promised land and celebrates the freedom of living so close to nature.
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