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"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
"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]
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.
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 ...
Call You Cowboy; Cheyenne (1906 song) Coca-Cola Cowboy; The Colorado Trail (song) Cool Water (song) Cowboy (Kid Rock song) Cowboy Band; Cowboy Beat; Cowboy Boogie; Cowboy Casanova; The Cowboy in Me; Cowboy Man; The Cowboy Rides Away; Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy song) Cowboy Take Me Away; Cowboy Yodel Song; A Cowboy's Born with a Broken Heart ...
With his father, he started his own record label, American Cowboy Songs, in 1970. Under that label he released 22 albums between 1971 and 1990. After gaining recognition from the 1989 Garth Brooks song, " Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) " he was signed to Liberty Records , where he released 4 studio albums in four years.
"Faster Horses (the Cowboy and the Poet)" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall. [1] It was released in December 1975 as the second single from the album, Faster Horses. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [2]
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.