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The song is a first-person narrative told by a cowboy in El Paso, Texas, in the days of the Wild West. The singer recalls how he frequented "Rosa's Cantina", where he became smitten with a young Mexican dancer named Feleena. When the singer notices another cowboy sharing a drink with "wicked Feleena," out of jealousy he challenges the newcomer ...
On the Trail of the Buffalo. "On the Trail of the Buffalo" (Roud 634), also known as "The Buffalo Skinners" or "The Hills of Mexico", is a traditional American folk song in the western music genre. It tells the story of an 1873 buffalo hunt on the southern plains. [1] According to Fannie Eckstorm, 1873 is correct, as the year that professional ...
Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of Western North America. The genre grew from the mix of cultural influences ...
Streets of Laredo (song) "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 (1911/ Rhymes of the range and trail) 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.
In Puerto Rico, charro is a generally accepted slang term to mean that someone or something is obnoxiously out of touch with social or style norms, similar to the United States usage of dork(y), (i.e gaudy). The traditional Mexican charro is known for colorful clothing and participating in coleadero y charreada, a specific type of Mexican rodeo.
México lindo y querido" is a traditional mariachi and ranchera Mexican song written by Chucho Monge and made famous by singer Jorge Negrete ("the singing charro"). [1] He sang it in the 1952 movie Forever Yours. [2] It is widely known throughout the Spanish-speaking world for its characterization of patriotism and loyalty for the land of ...
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.
Ranchera (pronounced [ranˈtʃeɾa]) or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness ...