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"Git Along, Little Dogies" is a traditional cowboy ballad, also performed under the title "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo." It is cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 827. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [1] The "dogies" referred to in the song are runty or orphaned calves. [2]
Patriotic Songs for Children (1939) Cowboy Songs (1939) Patriotic Songs for Children is a compilation album of three 78rpm phonograph records.
Call You Cowboy; Cheyenne (1906 song) Coca-Cola Cowboy; The Colorado Trail (song) Cool Water (song) Cowboy (Kid Rock song) Cowboy Band; Cowboy Beat; Cowboy Boogie; Cowboy Casanova; The Cowboy in Me; Cowboy Man; The Cowboy Rides Away; Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy song) Cowboy Take Me Away; Cowboy Yodel Song; A Cowboy's Born with a Broken Heart ...
[19] [20] At the time, the origins of "Home on the Range" were obscure and widely debated, although it had been published in 1910 in folklorist John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. [21] Lomax reported that he had learned the song from a black saloon keeper in Texas who recalled learning it on the Chisholm Trail. [7]
The earliest written version of the song was published in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads in 1910. It would first be recorded by Carl T. Sprague in 1926, and was released on a 10" single through Victor Records. [9] The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag.
Little Joe the Wrangler" is a classic American cowboy song, written by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp. It appeared in Thorp's 1908 Songs of the Cowboys, which was the first published collection of cowboy songs. [1] The tune comes from the song "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" written by Will Hayes in 1871.
When played at 33⅓ rpm instead of 45 rpm the vocals sound more natural. The song was recorded at that speed, by Stuart Hamblen's wife and adult daughter, so that when played at 45 rpm the song sounds as if it is being sung by children. The version sung by the Cowboy Church Sunday School was featured twice in the John Waters film A Dirty Shame.
"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.