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During World War II, Jack Patton, a singing cowboy in the Gene Autry mode, wrote an idealist, pacifist song that urged “Let’s all use our hearts, not guns.” Patton was a staunch vegetarian who ran several health food stores, but in 1946, he started managing Eden Ahbez, the \"first American hippie\" who became famous for writing “Nature Boy.” By 1949, Ahbez would discover Stan Jones, the writer of \"Ghost Riders in the Sky,\" an outdoorsy forest ranger who dressed like one of Ahbez's nature boys. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Patton and Ahbez would also co-write songs, including the pacifistic “Guitar Totin' Cowboy” (“I traded my old gun for this guitar.”) and the environmentalist “Bicycle Song.” By tracing the interrelationship of Patton, Ahbez, and Jones, we can learn about how the proto-hippie song “Nature Boy” and the hillbilly music of the 1940s shared both a love of nature and a penchant for “do your own thing” individualism.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThe linkage between country music and the hippie counterculture didn\u0026rsquo;t just begin with the subgenres of outlaw country and cosmic country in the 1970s, but had historical roots that can be traced to the late 1940s. During World War II, Jack Patton, a singing cowboy in the Gene Autry mode, wrote an idealist, pacifist song that urged \u0026ldquo;Let\u0026rsquo;s all use our hearts, not guns.\u0026rdquo; Patton was a staunch vegetarian who ran several health food stores, but in 1946, he started managing Eden Ahbez, the \"first American hippie\" who became famous for writing \u0026ldquo;Nature Boy.\u0026rdquo; By 1949, Ahbez would discover Stan Jones, the writer of \"Ghost Riders in the Sky,\" an outdoorsy forest ranger who dressed like one of Ahbez's nature boys. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Patton and Ahbez would also co-write songs, including the pacifistic \u0026ldquo;Guitar Totin' Cowboy\u0026rdquo; (\u0026ldquo;I traded my old gun for this guitar.\u0026rdquo;) and the environmentalist \u0026ldquo;Bicycle Song.\u0026rdquo; By tracing the interrelationship of Patton, Ahbez, and Jones, we can learn about how the proto-hippie song \u0026ldquo;Nature Boy\u0026rdquo; and the hillbilly music of the 1940s shared both a love of nature and a penchant for \u0026ldquo;do your own thing\u0026rdquo; individualism.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/312/801/small/ARSC_conf_2026_Pennington_thmb.jpg?1782311127","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3706/collection_resources/170578/file/312801","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2026_Pennington_video_1.mp4"]},"duration":1312.04407,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/312/801/small/ARSC_conf_2026_Pennington_thmb.jpg?1782311127","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3706/collection_resources/170578/file/312801/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3706/collection_resources/170578/file/312801/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/312/801/original/ARSC_conf_2026_Pennington_video_1.mp4?1782311077","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1312.04407,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3706/collection_resources/170578/file/312801","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}