The Songs

Act I

Act II

Glossary

bits - currency, 25 cents equaled two bits

Box Social - fundraiser donated lunch boxes, usually created by women, are auctioned off for charity

bull-dogging - throwing a calf or steer

bunkoed - scheme to trickpeople out of their money

camphor - aromatic crystalline compound from camphor tree wood

dewdads - drawers or pants often with lace and ribbons

Dutch rub - roughly rubbing one's knuckles across the top of someone's head

fascinator - a headpiece, a style of millinery

isinglass curtains - the surrey's curtains would have been made from mica, processed into thin, translucent sheets that can be "rolled right up"

magic-lantern show - ancestor of the slide projector

mav'rick - Texas cowboy's name for an unbranded calf

Persia - modern-day Iran

shike-poke - colloquialism based on a heron-like bird whose sounds are like a stake-driver