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"Cowboy Songs" is a song by American country music singer George Birge. He wrote the song with Michael Tyler, Lalo Guzman, and Matt McGinn , the latter two of whom also produced it. Content
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]
The 1960 follow-up More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs has a version of the original. Doc Watson's version, "St. James Hospital", combines some of the "cowboy" lyrics with a tune resembling "St. James Infirmary" and lyrics drawn from that song, and contains the unmistakable "bang the drum slowly" verse.
The Colorado Trail (Roud 6695) is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [1] Sandburg says that he learned the song from Dr. T. L. Chapman, of Duluth, Minnesota, who heard it from a badly injured cowboy being treated in his hospital.
Johnny Cash recorded a version on his 1965 album Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West. Cowboy Nation [Chip Kinman & Tony Kinman] recorded their arrangement of "Old Paint" on the self-titled album in 1996. Canadian singer Colter Wall recorded a version on his 2020 album Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs.
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.
Cowboy Songs may refer to: Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John A. Lomax, 1920; Cowboy Songs (Bing Crosby album), 1939; Cowboy Songs (Michael Martin Murphey album), 1990; Cowboy Songs (Riders in the Sky album), 1996 "Cowboy Songs" (song), by George Birge, 2024
"Goodbye Old Paint" is a traditional Western song that was created by black cowboy Charley Willis. [1] The song was first collected by songwriter N. Howard "Jack" Thorp in his 1921 book Songs of the Cowboys. [2] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [3]