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The words of the labor song "The Ballad of Bloody Thursday" – inspired by a deadly clash between strikers and police during the 1934 San Francisco longshoremen's strike – also follow the "Streets of Laredo" pattern and tune. As for "The Cowboy's Lament/Streets of Laredo" itself, Austin E. and Alta S. Fife in Songs of the Cowboys (1966) say
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Vikingarna recorded an instrumental version of the song on the 1981 album Kramgoa låtar 9, entitled "Home on the Ranch". [28] [29] An instrumental version of the song was used in the 2011 video game, Rage. In 2016, the American progressive rock band Kansas released a version of the song as a bonus track on their album The Prelude Implicit.
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is also the fight song of the University of Wyoming. Traditionally, Cowboy fans stand and clap to the beat of the song as played by Wyoming's Western Thunder Marching Band. The version of the song appropriated by Wyoming was written by Francis Edwin Stroup (1909–2010) [3] in 1961. He rewrote the chorus. [4]
This 1938 recording is of a song written by Frank Wallace (Frankie Marvin) who first recorded it in 1928 under its original title "Oklahoma Blues"–see below in this list for that song and other compositions with the same title. [119] "Idabel Blues" – written by David Clark and John Cooper, recorded by their band, the Red Dirt Rangers, 1996.
It has become one of the best-known cowboy songs, found in dozens of collections of American folk music and performed on numerous recordings. [1] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [2] The song tells the story of a bragging horse breaker who meets his match in a picturesque ...
Some versions of the words include fire and sleet rather than fire and fleet; the latter is in Aubrey's version of the words and in the Oxford Book of English Verse. F.W. Moorman, in his book on Yorkshire dialect poetry, explains that fleet means floor and references the OED.
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is the fifth studio album by Marty Robbins, released on the Columbia Records label in September 1959 and peaking at number 6 on the U.S. pop albums chart. It was recorded in a single eight-hour session on April 7, 1959, [ 1 ] and was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1965 [ 2 ] and Platinum in 1986. [ 3 ]