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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
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was the radio show theme song for New York City's long running, award-winning public radio show, Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch (1976–1988), hosted by Paul Aaron, New York's Cowboy Joe. During one of his radio shows Paul Aaron had the elder Joe Abrahams (the original Cowboy Joe) as a special guest.
"Cowboy Take Me Away" is a song by American country music group Dixie Chicks, written by Martie Maguire and Marcus Hummon. It was released in November 1999 as the second single from their album Fly. The song's title is derived from a famous slogan used in commercials for Calgon bath and beauty products.
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 ...
"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine.The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1965.
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. [10]
A young poet encounters a cowboy in a local bar and is struck by his thin, worn appearance from years of hard work. Sensing the cowboy has words of inspiration to share, the poet approaches the cowboy, who responds that the only good things in life are "faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money." He goes on to explain that "to ...
(The song's lyrics as recorded in 1999 by Myra Pearce did not mention Oklahoma.) [401] "Rose of Oklahoma" – written by Rose E. Black, with additional writing credits to Cowboy Copas, Chaw Mank and Lew Mel (Louis Mulé); record released with vocal by Cowboy Copas, 1948. [402] "Rough Wind in Oklahoma" – Michael Hedges, 1999. [403]