With a song in my heart

No, Kathy and Cinnomin could go along as we embarked on a trip from Riverside, California to Hills, Minnesota to visit our Mothers in Hills and in Sioux Falls,South Dakota along with a host of other relatives. After leaving Minnesota we traveled north to Canada and came back west on the trans-Canadian highway to Vancouver, British Columbia where today Dan,Brigid and Summer set sail for other ports along with some special cousins.
We then traveled south anong the California coast and back to Riverside. We made this trip several times in the mid-60's.
On the bumpber of the Terry camper was the inscription:
THE RAMBLING RYE'S OF RIVERSIDE.

We got the phrase from one of the many songs we would sing together as we covered the many miles of this beutiful country.

As we roamed this land together
these are the songs we sung
as a family young and joyful
carefree everyone.

Oh, the years are many, the years are long,
since we sung them in days go by,
but may the remain even now as then,
the apple of your eye- Dad and Mom.

My Rambling Boy
by Tom Paxton

Stories and songs about hobos formed a considerable part of the folklore during the 1930's when
the ranks of the vagrants swelled due to the scarcity of jobs. Here a hobo sings of the loyalty of his departed buddy.

Chorus:
So fare ye well, my rambling boy,
May all your rambles bring you joy.
So fare ye well, my rambling boy,
May all your rambles bring you joy.

He was a man and a friend always,
We rambled round in the hard old days,
He never cared if I had no dough,
We wandered round in the rain and snow.
Chorus:
In Tulsa town we chanced to stray,
We thought we try to work one day.
The boss said he had room for one.
Says my old pal,"We'd rather bum."
Chorus:
Late one night in a jungle camp,
The weather it was cold and damp,
He got the chills and he got them bad,
I lost the only friend I ever had.
Chorus:
He left me here to ramble on,
My rambling pal is dead and gone.
Now, if when we die we go somewhere
I'll bet you a dollar he's rambling there."
Chorus:"