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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 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 song was written during the Urban Cowboy fad [7] while living with his wife in Manhattan next to a gay country bar on Christopher Street called Boots and Saddles. He explains, "Gay life in 1981 was very vibrant in those days. It was part of the culture of the city and cowboy imagery is a part of gay iconography." He wrote the song with ...
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.
Most of these cowboy songs are of unknown authorship, but among the best known is "Little Joe the Wrangler" written by Thorp himself. [6] [7] In 1910, John Lomax, in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, [8] first gained national attention for western music. His book contained some of the same songs as Thorp's book, although in ...
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
The earliest commercial recording of the song was by Harry "Mac" McClintock in 1929 (released on Victor V-40016 as "Get Along, Little Doggies"). Roy Rogers performed the song in the 1940 film West of the Badlands. Bing Crosby covered the song for his 1959 album How the West Was Won. [5] The Kingston Trio covered the song for their 1962 album ...