The Strawberry Roan (song)

"The Strawberry Roan" is a classic American cowboy song, written by California cowboy Curley Fletcher and first published in 1915, as a poem called The Outlaw Broncho.

By the early 1930s, the song had become famous; in 1931 it was sung by a cowboy in the Broadway play Green Grow the Lilacs.

It has become one of the best-known cowboy songs, found in dozens of collections of American folk music and performed on numerous recordings.

[2] The song tells the story of a bragging horse breaker who meets his match in a picturesque strawberry roan.

[1][3] American singer Chappell Roan chose her stage name in honor of her grandfather, Dennis K. Chappell, whose favorite song was "The Strawberry Roan".