An old ballad about Porter Rockwell that cowboys allegedly used to sing around campfires: Old Port Rockwell looks like man, With a beard on his face and his hair in a braid, But theres none in the West but Brigham who can Look in his eyes and not be afraid. For Port is a devil in a human shape, Though he calls himself Angel, say vengence is sweet; But hes black, bitter death, and theres no escape, When he wails through the night his dread war cry, Wheat! Wheat! Somewhere a wife with her babes kneels to pray, For she knows shes a widow and orphans are they. The war cry wheat is in reference to a phrase Rockwell would say to that something was good. Example: That saddle is wheat. Basically, it was a 19th Century way of saying something was cool.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:07:06 +0000
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