The End of the Ride

Ride em in,
Head em out
Ride em in
Head 'em out
Rawhide"

Rawhide's calculatin'
Your true love will be waitin'
Be waiting at the end of the ride.

That is the theme song from the Clint Eastwood cowboy show "Rawhide" and it is the music of my first ten years as the dad of two daughters. No Mozart for me, I used to sing "Rawhide" all the time as I was herding my young daughters around the house getting them up, getting them out to the dining room to eat, and escorting them off to bed. It was a big part of the fun of being a dad. "Ride 'em in, Head 'em out."

Of course, we all know what's really waiting at the end of our ride. Yesterday, Frankie Laine, the guy who sang the Rawhide theme song died. Laine was 93 years old when he died and must have been a really game kind of guy because he sang in gin joints and little dives around Chicago and LA for 17 years before finally getting his big break.

Maybe my ride will last that long.

Ride 'em in
Head 'em out . . .