
Henson Cargill (5 February 1941-24 March 2007) was an American country music singer from Oklahoma. Born in Oklahoma City, he came from a politically active family (he was the grandson of Mayor O.A. Cargill), and he worked as a court clerk, private investigator, and deputy sheriff in Oklahoma City before becoming a musician. In the 1960s, he went to Nashville and recorded a progressive protest song, "Skip a Rope" (1967), which criticized verbal spousal abuse, tax evasion, and racism and blamed the "not very funny" things that children said on their parents. Afterwards, Cargill continued to have several Top 20 hits, and he retired to Oklahoma City in the late 1980s and died in 2007 during surgery.