09-26-2003, 10:44 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: AT DA 9
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Originally posted by WhoMe
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Leave it to dem' Kiowas to start something that: involves a good time, snagging, is done in the dark and can get you beat up if you over indulge!
j/k
Most noted Kiowa singers can attest to learning how to sing at 49's before coming to the "big drum."
In the 50's through 70's, 49s were held in the dance arena after a powwow. During this time older people would sing and rounddance around the 49 drum. I have heard where some of these rounddance circles were up to 18 rows deep!
Many dirt roads have become legends to the modern 49 including but not exclusive to: Corn Bread's, Moonlight Mile, Ware Road, Four Corners, Grafitti Bridge, the Monument, South Roads, the Y, Moccasin Trail, The Oil Derricks, The Cemetary, Sunny Side, Cowboy Hill, East Roads, Burgess I and II, The Hobbit, Bixby and The Field.
Good 49 singers know that there is a difference between 49 songs and round dance songs. They will not mix them during a set.
There is a starting song, then the older 49 or war journey songs are sung. Then a good mixture of vocable (songs with no words),
49 songs with Indian words and 49 songs with English words are sung. Some of these songs have titles such as: the pizza song (sung in Comanche), matagitza (Sung in Cheyenne), the turtle song (sung in Kiowa), Black Jack Daisy, To Hell With Your Old Man,
and Western Front.
Towards morning you will hear what are called "morning songs and courting songs." These are round dance songs with words. They should not be sung during a set of 49 songs (unless you don't know what your doing). These include such titles as: Party Time, Love Sick Blues, When the Sun Goes Down at Night, Indian Girls, I'm from Oklahoma and Give Me Five Minutes More.
The closing song is affectionately called "bird legs." If you are at a 49 when this is sung . . . . you are there at your own risk! *LOL
Good 49's will have two drums going at the same time, hundreds of people and lot's of singers (both men and women) on the outskirts having a good time!
Some of the best 49's in the south are: Red Earth, Stroud, Pawnee, Tulsa IICOT, Indian Hills and Carnegie 4th of July.
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That would make for interesting conversation at a future 9. 
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