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"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.
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.
As a result he is dying, "cut down in his prime". He had ignored his father’s frequent rebukes and warnings about his wicked ways. He asks the narrator to arrange his funeral. He requests that his coffin be carried by six "jolly fellows", his "pall" by six "pretty maidens". They should carry "bunches of roses" to cover the smell of the corpse.
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According to Canadian folklorist Edith Fowke, there is anecdotal evidence that the song was known in at least five Canadian provinces before 1896. [4] This finding led to speculation that the song was composed at the time of the 1870 Wolseley Expedition to Manitoba's northern Red River Valley.
"The Old Chisholm Trail" (Roud 3438) is a cowboy song first published in 1910 by John Lomax in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. [1]The song dates back to the 1870s, when it was among the most popular songs sung by cowboys during that era.
Record label for Bing Crosby's 1936 Decca recording of "Empty Saddles" "Empty Saddles (in the Old Corral)" is a classic American cowboy song written by Billy Hill.Hill based the song on a poem by J. Keirn Brennan grieving for lost companions. [1]
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.