That Ignorant, Ignorant Cowboy

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Erik Barnouw
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1949-uu-uu.

"That Ignorant, Ignorant Cowboy": A commercially-released song about a man who got syphilis but didn't realize it and thus never got cured.



Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 92532
Municipal archives id: LT1943

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