An analysis of the song High Ridin' Woman written and sung about Jessica Drummond, a rancher who rules the town with her gang of forty men.
While this character is a reversal of traditional male and female roles, this song becomes one that is misogynistic.
She's a high ridin' woman with a whip
She's a woman that all men desire
But that no man can tame her
That's why they name her
The high ridin' woman with a whip
She commands and men obey
They're just putty in her hands, so they say
When she rides and the wind is in her hair
She has eyes full of life, full of fire
But if someone could break her
And take her whip away
Someone big, someone strong, someone tall
You may find that the woman with a whip
Is only a woman after all
High Ridin’ Woman was written by Harold Adamson.