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George Birge wrote "Cowboy Songs" in 2023 during a songwriting session with Matt McGinn. McGinn had the lyric "she only dances to cowboy songs", and Tyler suggested making the line into "something you wouldn't expect". The four writers then came up with a premise of a barroom encounter between a man and woman.
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.
In 1908, N. Howard "Jack" Thorp published the first book of western music, titled Songs of the Cowboys. Containing only lyrics and no musical notation, the book was very popular west of the Mississippi River. Most of these cowboy songs are of unknown authorship, but among the best known is "Little Joe the Wrangler" written by Thorp himself. [7] [8]
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.
The Rambling Gambler" is a traditional folk song of the American West. It was first recorded in print by John A. & Alan Lomax in their jointly authored 1938 edition of Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. [1] Like many folk songs, it is known by a variety of titles, such as "Rambler, Gambler," and "I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler"
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.
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]
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