Singing for His Supper

Cy Scarborough’s heart never was in the “Natural State,” even though he was born and raised in Arkansas 85 years ago. “As a kid, I dreamed of going West and becoming a singing cowboy,” he says with a laugh, and darned if that’s not exactly what he did. In his mid-20s, in 1953, he had found employment in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the Flying W Ranch chuckwagon supper theatre. For the next 15 years, he served as many as 1,200 people a night. Then he moved his family a few miles