8/18/2023 0 Comments Lomax swing it![]() ![]() Michael Martin Murphy set the poem to music in 1985 and has performed the song at the Christmas Ball ever since. ![]() The Texas Cowboys' Ball has roots in the pioneer era of West Texas when the town of Anson was the site of a Christmas Ball, that inspired Larry Chittenden's 1890 poem titled "The Cowboys' Christmas Ball." That poem was later published in John Lomax's book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads.
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