“Oh, give me land, lots of land
under starry skies above
Don’t fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open
country that I love
Don’t fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evenin’
breeze
And listen to the murmur of the
cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you
please
Don’t fence me in …”
~ “Don’t Fence Me In”
~ popular American song written
in 1934, with music by Cole Porter and lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole
Porter. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top
100 Western songs of all time. The song was recorded by artists including Roy
Rogers, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith and Ella Fitzgerald.
A beautiful white-tailed deer doe
slides under a fence on a property along the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown,
Pennsylvania on a summer afternoon.
