Yeah, and I always liked and occasionally sing other traditional cattlepoke songs like "I ride an old paint". The Guthries, Woody and Arlo, kept that 'un alive into the late 20th Century. But the meaning of 'hoolihan' in it was kinda lost.
But, the latest "American Slang Word of the Week" in the Oxford University Press blog is 'hoolihan' meaning, so they say: "1. (among cowboys) a backhand thrown loop for roping horses.
2. an exciting or extraordinary event.
In phrase: throw the hoolihan [fr. sense of (1), above] (among cowboys) to celebrate riotously."
http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/paint.html Woody Guthrie
http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/ride-old-paint.shtml
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