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Red's Songs
Our family loves singing. The video above was our Singing Cowboy Uncle Red Hullinger.
Slide Show With Music by JK Keve with songs by Red and Cousins
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1. Cowboy Jack
2. Strawberry Roan
3. You Don't See Him from the Road
4. Tied a Knot in the Devil's Tail
5. Rodeo Fan
6. Vivian Blue
7. Skyball Paint
8. Windy Bill
9. What Do You Do with a Cowboy
10. Who's Gonna Feed them Hogs
11. Watermelon Wine
12. Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain
13. Do What You Do Do Well
14. Everything's a Waltz
15. I Still Love You
16. Where Is the Circus
17. Sundown Mary
18. I Need Someone to Hold Me
19. Back to the Bar
20. Good to Be Back Home Again
21. The Older the Violin
22. Lady Preacher
23. I Just Want to Dance with You
24. I'll Have a Blue Christmas
25. Forgiving You is Easy
Red Hullinger - The 2000 reunion tapes. Digitally remastered.
By Stan Wasilik
By Stan Wasilik
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Our Singing Cowboy Uncle Red often sang this song to his nephews and nieces.
I was born about 10,000 years ago,
There ain't nothin in this world that I don't know,
I saw Peter Pan and Moses dancin Ring around the Roses,
And I'll Whip the man who says it isn't so.
And then all the collected Nieces and Nephews gleefully and loudly would say, "It isn't so!!!"
And Red would glare at us in mock anger.
Which we loved.
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Another song that Neil Hullinger loved for Red to play when Audrey was present.
Oh I wouldn't take her to a dog fight,
or any other place I've ever been,
Oh I wouldn't take her to a dog fight,
Not even if she had a chance to win.
And Neil would gleefully watch Audrey, hoping for a response.
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Vivian Blue
by Red Hullinger
Sitting in the horse barn talking with Joe,
Said he had a filly that could really go
But to take her to the track would take a lot of dough
Asked his wife and his wife said “No”
Kids need shoes
and Joe hates missing those meals
So he devised a unique scheme
That would fulfill a lot of people’s dreams
Of getting in the sport of kings
We all know as horse-racing
Being a big shot
Hanging round the trick
Trying to get in the big picture
So here’ what we did with this little mare
He told Frenchie & & Barb to go sell shares
We ended up finding quite a few
Proud new owners of Vivian Blue
’27 of ‘em.
High rollers
Making two dollar show bets
So we took her to the track and we gave her a start
She acted like a horse with a racehorse heart.
We all decided she could run some
So it’s look out Omaha, here we come
Going big time
Churchill Downs
Pimblico
Well, we all know we won’t win every out
And if we take up the rear we’re not going to pout
When somebody wins, somebody loses
With this many owners, there’s a lot of excuses
Boxed in
Comin’ on
But never once outrun
Here’s a little advice for Vivian Blue
Just remember there’s a market for dogfood and glue
And all you got to do for us all to have fun
Is get out of the gate and stick your nose out and run
Stay sound
Eat your oats
And don’t suck wind.
by Red Hullinger
Sitting in the horse barn talking with Joe,
Said he had a filly that could really go
But to take her to the track would take a lot of dough
Asked his wife and his wife said “No”
Kids need shoes
and Joe hates missing those meals
So he devised a unique scheme
That would fulfill a lot of people’s dreams
Of getting in the sport of kings
We all know as horse-racing
Being a big shot
Hanging round the trick
Trying to get in the big picture
So here’ what we did with this little mare
He told Frenchie & & Barb to go sell shares
We ended up finding quite a few
Proud new owners of Vivian Blue
’27 of ‘em.
High rollers
Making two dollar show bets
So we took her to the track and we gave her a start
She acted like a horse with a racehorse heart.
We all decided she could run some
So it’s look out Omaha, here we come
Going big time
Churchill Downs
Pimblico
Well, we all know we won’t win every out
And if we take up the rear we’re not going to pout
When somebody wins, somebody loses
With this many owners, there’s a lot of excuses
Boxed in
Comin’ on
But never once outrun
Here’s a little advice for Vivian Blue
Just remember there’s a market for dogfood and glue
And all you got to do for us all to have fun
Is get out of the gate and stick your nose out and run
Stay sound
Eat your oats
And don’t suck wind.
copyright Ellis "Red" Hullinger
Red could do two or three dead hang pullups with either arm. I have never seen another big man strong enough to do that.
Ellis "Red" Hullinger
Boxer, Jokester, Small Kid Roper
Shooter, Singer, Hot Rod Maker
Thanks for everything
Your Nieces and Nephews
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Ballad of the Wheatlands
By Meribee Erickson
1. When first I leased a piece of land, Dad told me short and sweet,
"Son, bet your roll on cards or dice--not on growin' wheat."
But I was young and full of dreams. I paid his words no heed.
I sowed my crop, and what a crop! Not even next year's seed.
First Chorus:
Fields of wheat, lush and waving, greeny-gold of ripening wheat.
Bringing dreams of bumper harvests for all a hungry world to eat.
Golden dreams that sometimes end in winter storms or desert heat.
Still the dreams of life go onward. Magic fields of growing wheat.
2. So year by year I planted wheat and played for bigger stakes.
Sometimes I won, sometimes I lost, in farmin' that's the breaks.
Now when I lost the loss was mine. Nobody claimed a share.
But when I won they stood in line, with all of Main Street there.
3. I went in debt for big machines to break the prairie sod,
And what I had belonged to me--me, and the bank, and God.
I prized my independence then for that's the kind I am,
Until I cut a partner in. I call him Uncle Sam.
4. Yet when it's April on the plains, with sun and gentle rain
A fairer sight you'll never see--a good young stand of grain.
Each year the miracle takes place before our mortal sight
The earth grown young and green again--creation overnight!
Final Chorus:
Fields of wheat lush and waving, tender kernels in the head
Days of harvest with the wheat smell clean and good as fresh-baked bread.
And the chewy taste of wheat grains spilling forth in lavish streams
There's gold in them thar fields, boys, gold to match your wildest dreams.
If you would like to add photos or songs or memories please send them to me and I will post them.
craighullinger@gmail.com
Days of harvest with the wheat smell clean and good as fresh-baked bread.
And the chewy taste of wheat grains spilling forth in lavish streams
There's gold in them thar fields, boys, gold to match your wildest dreams.
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If you would like to add photos or songs or memories please send them to me and I will post them.
craighullinger@gmail.com
M.E. "Red" Hullinger Obituary
M.E. "Red" Hullinger was born on May 29, 1927 to John F. and Pearl Harlan Hullinger at their farm home south of Vivian, SD. After graduation for Vivian High School in 1945, he spent five years with the U.S. Navy, serving on two destroyers - the USS Coolbaugh and the USS Goodrich.
Ellis served on boards for West Central Electric, Vivian Township, and Soil Conservation. He also was a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. In non-official community roles, Ellis removed snow for the neighbors, chauffeured the sick and the elderly, and was a willing fix-it man.
A guitar player and country-western singer, Ellis sometimes performed with local dance combos but more frequently entertained at local affairs. He regularly visited shut-ins and often played and sang for then, as well.
He continued the country-western focus with his love of horses and roping. He broke broncs and trailed cattle. He twirled rope, usually for the entertainment of small children, whom he loved and who loved him.
Ellis died Tuesday, January 2, 2001, at his home in Vivian.
Ellis' surviving family includes his wife Audry of Vivian, and his children and their families, Colleen and Darrell Erlandson and sons Jerry and Jeff of Sioux Falls, SD, Ronda and Harold Gutsche and daughters Sherry and Kristi and sons Sam and Guy of Rozet, WY, Lyle and Marsha Hullinger and sons Brodie and Toby of Vivian, SD, Dan and Tenna Harvey of Kansas City, MO and Gene Harvey of Detroit, MI, brother Clifford Hullinger and wife Louise of Chicago, Il; sisters, Maribee Erikson of Waitsburg, WA, Margaret Rohde and Husband Ernie of Kennewick, WA, Carolyn Smith and husband Lorne of Waitsburg, WA, Doris Hulce and husband Bob of Waitsburg, WA, and Viginia Hullinger of Presho; sister-in-law Eunice Hullinger of Vivian and 24 nephews and nieces.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother John (Jack) Hullinger, and brothers-in-law Everett Erikson and Garold McClanahan.
Ellis served on boards for West Central Electric, Vivian Township, and Soil Conservation. He also was a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. In non-official community roles, Ellis removed snow for the neighbors, chauffeured the sick and the elderly, and was a willing fix-it man.
A guitar player and country-western singer, Ellis sometimes performed with local dance combos but more frequently entertained at local affairs. He regularly visited shut-ins and often played and sang for then, as well.
He continued the country-western focus with his love of horses and roping. He broke broncs and trailed cattle. He twirled rope, usually for the entertainment of small children, whom he loved and who loved him.
Ellis died Tuesday, January 2, 2001, at his home in Vivian.
Ellis' surviving family includes his wife Audry of Vivian, and his children and their families, Colleen and Darrell Erlandson and sons Jerry and Jeff of Sioux Falls, SD, Ronda and Harold Gutsche and daughters Sherry and Kristi and sons Sam and Guy of Rozet, WY, Lyle and Marsha Hullinger and sons Brodie and Toby of Vivian, SD, Dan and Tenna Harvey of Kansas City, MO and Gene Harvey of Detroit, MI, brother Clifford Hullinger and wife Louise of Chicago, Il; sisters, Maribee Erikson of Waitsburg, WA, Margaret Rohde and Husband Ernie of Kennewick, WA, Carolyn Smith and husband Lorne of Waitsburg, WA, Doris Hulce and husband Bob of Waitsburg, WA, and Viginia Hullinger of Presho; sister-in-law Eunice Hullinger of Vivian and 24 nephews and nieces.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother John (Jack) Hullinger, and brothers-in-law Everett Erikson and Garold McClanahan.
| BIRTH |
Lyman County, South Dakota, USA
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| DEATH | 2 Jan 2001 (aged 73)
Vivian, Lyman County, South Dakota, USA
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| BURIAL | Vivian, Lyman County, South Dakota, USA |
| MEMORIAL ID | 57042271 · View Source |
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