Fancy Pants

My memory ain't so good anymore, but I think I remember this from the Errol Flynn movie "They Died With Their Boots On." Errol Flynn is, of course, General George Armstrong Custer and he is traveling to his post out west. He meets up with an old mule skinner driving a wagon and who takes Custer to the fort. Custer takes a shine to the mule skinner and offers him a job as a scout. The mule skinner agrees to do it, but he says, "I ain't going to wear any of those fancy pants", referring to the trousers of a U. S. Cavalry trooper.

That mule skinner is one of my movie heroes because I ain't going to wear any of those fancy pants either.

Do you remember that old early sixties Rock song "Mule Skinner Blues?"