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"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]
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
“Jody Like a Melody” is probably one of my favorite songs because as a songwriter, up until I had written that song, I had been writing songs in three chords, you know, real simple stuff. In that song I wrote the string arrangements and key changes and everything. It opened up a lot of doors for me.
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.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (6th printing ed.). New York: The MacMillan Company. Waltz, Robert B; David G. Engle. ""Boggy Creek" or "The Hills of Mexico" Archived 2004-10-21 at the Wayback Machine". The Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World.
A Paint horse. I Ride an Old Paint is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [1] [2]Traveling the American Southwest, Sandburg found the song through western poets Margaret Larkin and Linn Riggs.
Fred Shuster of the Los Angeles Daily News wrote, "Songs like 'Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!' and 'Fifteen Minutes' are well-sung and tuneful". [13] Tom Harrison of The Province described the song as "spritely" and a "worthy sequel" to MacColl's " There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis ".
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.