Jane Fallon - Daddy Was A Cowboy

I drew upon my Western roots for this fictitious tale of a girl who never knows her father, but having found a picture in her mother’s drawer, and listening to the town gossip, decides her daddy was a cowboy.
I was writing the book about my dad at the time, so a couple of his real life stories get embedded in this fantasy tale. I always remember my dad as a young man, long and lean, standing by his pick up truck (as the fictitious cowboy is); also,
my dad told me one of his life’s tales: as a young man working in the rice fields of California he was called upon to put some dynamite in the dam so that the Sacramento River wouldn’t overflow and ruin the rice fields. That is an example of how songwriters weave true stories into fictitious ones. My own dad was Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and Randolph Scott all rolled into one.