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Light out and ridePosted by The CyberSaddleTramp on February 16, 2003 Recently, I was searching
lyrics to a Mark Knopfler tune called "Camerado" and found the line "light out
and ride" misquoted frequently. I understood the phrase to mean "get going", "get
out of here fast" or "leave quickly". I have a sense that I may have heard this
from old "B" westerns I watched as a kid in the fifties. I suspect it may have
something to do with bandits around a campfire that would have a posse come up
on them and they would kill the light of the fire, mount up on their horses and
scatter in all directions. Or possibly, blowing out a latern after saddling up
in a barn and riding out.
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