# Help me identify an old-timey tune, please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 22, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649 "2025-05-22T07:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/21 "2025-05-22T12:48:49Z")
“I’m Going to Leave Old Texas Now”? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CJQwXxJZw5c/maxresdefault.jpg "I'm Going to Leave Old Texas Now") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQwXxJZw5c) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/22 "2025-05-22T12:50:56Z")
No words that I know of. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/23 "2025-05-22T13:00:54Z")
More Morricone, I’d say. But again, I don’t think it’s from a movie ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/24 "2025-05-22T13:02:20Z")
It’s not in a minor key, but [“Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1KRnkKNlc) is mournful, and certainly has a cowboy feel. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/25 "2025-05-22T13:04:46Z")
Nope, I know that one too. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/26 "2025-05-22T13:13:54Z")
I think [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaonCm9navk) has all the do-do’s in the right places. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/27 "2025-05-22T13:15:36Z")
Have you tried humming it into Shazam or one of those other song recognition apps? I never had any luck with those, but I think with AI assistance they’ve gotten better. That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/28 "2025-05-22T13:19:34Z")
Too upbeat. 🙁 ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/29 "2025-05-22T13:21:20Z")
I know exactly what the OP is talking about. I don’t know the proper title but I call it a “Cowboy Mosey” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/30 "2025-05-22T13:21:38Z")
Thanks, I’ll try that a little later. Right now, I need to get some sleep. 😴 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/31 "2025-05-22T13:26:07Z")
Is it that stock music that I hear in the WB cartoons sometime as a livestock/farm motif? Can’t think of a specific cartoon, though. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/32 "2025-05-22T13:29:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Right now, I need to get some sleep. Try watching the ‘Three Amigos’ clip that @GuanoLad posted upthread-- maybe it’ll help with that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/33 "2025-05-22T13:32:05Z")
Could you record yourself humming a bit of the melody and uploading it (youtube or vimeo or whatever)? Trying to identify a song by verbal description has its limitations. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/34 "2025-05-22T13:38:55Z")
The “On the Trail” section of the “Grand Canyon” suite? (The relevant bit starts at 12:33, if this link doesn’t automatically cue up correctly.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zEaif_5wXrY/maxresdefault.jpg "Grand Canyon Suite I. Sunrise - II. Painted Desert - III. On the Trail - IV. Sunset - V. Cloudburst") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEaif_5wXrY&t=753) ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/35 "2025-05-22T13:48:01Z")
Probably not this one, but I like it a lot so here it is: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FBPFcEWL_FU/hqdefault.jpg "Virgil Thomson : The Plow that Broke the Plains, Suite from the film music (1936)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPFcEWL_FU&t=160) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/36 "2025-05-22T13:57:19Z")
“Happy Trails?” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/37 "2025-05-22T14:06:18Z")
“Doom ba da ba, doom ba da ba….” ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/38 "2025-05-22T14:06:46Z")
Globetrottin’ by Top Topham? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KbN2PO5yZZA/maxresdefault.jpg "Globetrottin'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbN2PO5yZZA) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/39 "2025-05-22T14:15:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The melody goes “Do-do, do-doo / do-do, do-doo. / Do do-do, doodley-DOO! / Do-do, do-doo / do-do do-doo. Do do-do, doodley-DOO!” Sounds like the theme from Gunsmoke 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-timey-tune-please/1018649/40 "2025-05-22T14:21:34Z")
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