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Lyrics for Streets Of Laredo Cowboys Lament by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Streets Of Laredo Cowboys Lament | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 234 | | | | Lyrics: | Streets of Laredo (Cowboy's Lament)
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo,
As I
walked out in Laredo one day,
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
Wrapped in
white linen as cold as the clay.
"Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife
lowly,
Play the Dead March as you carry me along,
Take me to the green valley and lay the
sod o'er me
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong."
"I see by your
outfit that you are a cowboy"
These words he did say as I boldly stepped by,
"Come sit
down beside me and hear my sad story,
I was shot in the breast and I know I must
die."
"Let sixteen gamblers come handle my coffin,
Let sixteen cowboys come sing me
a song,
Take me to the graveyard and lay the sod o'er me
For I'm a poor cowboy and I know
I've done wrong."
"My friends and relations, they live in the Nation,
They know not
where their boy has gone,
He first came to Texas and hired to a ranchman
Oh, I'm a young
cowboy and I know I've done wrong."
"Go write a letter to my gray-haired mother,
And
carry the same to my sister so dear,
But not a word of this shall you mention
When a crowd
gathers round you my story to hear."
"Then beat your drum slowly and play your fife
lowly,
Beat the Dead March as you carry me along,
We all love our cowboys so young and so
handsome,
We all love our cowboys although they've done wrong."
"There is another
more dear than a sister
She'll bitterly weep when she hears I am gone,
There is another
who will win her affections,
For I'm a young cowboy and they say I've done
wrong."
"Go gather around you a crowd of young cowboys,
And tell them the story of
this, my sad fate;
Tell one and the other before they go further
To stop their wild roving
before 'tis too late."
"Oh muffle your drums, then play your fifes merrily
Play the
Dead March as you go along
And fire your guns right over my coffin,
There goes an
unfortunate boy to his home."
"It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing
Once
in the saddle I used to go gay,
First down to the dram-house and then to the card
house
Got shot in the breast, I am dying today."
"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my
coffin,
Get six pretty maidens to carry my pall,
Put bunches of roses all over my
coffin,
Put roses to deaden the clods as they fall."
"Then swing your rope slowly,
and rattle your spurs lowly,
And give a wild whoop as you carry me along,
And in the grave
throw me and roll the sod o'er me
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done
wrong."
"Go bring me a cup, a cup of cold water
To cool my parched lips," the
cowboy said;
Before I turned, the spirit had left him
And gone to its Giver --- the cowboy
was dead.
We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
And bitterly wept as we
bore him along,
For we all loved our comrade, so brave, young and handsome,
We all loved
our comrade although he'd done wrong.
Note: This the the fullest version I've been able
to dig up:
from Cowboy Songs (Macmillan) RG
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