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"Cowboy Song" is a song by hard rock band Thin Lizzy that originally appeared on their 1976 album Jailbreak. Released as a single in an edited version, it reached No. 77 on the US charts, but at the time did not gain as much attention as two of their most popular songs on the same album, "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Jailbreak".
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.
"Git Along, Little Dogies" is a traditional cowboy ballad, also performed under the title "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo." It is cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 827. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [1] The "dogies" referred to in the song are runty or orphaned calves. [2]
"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]
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.
When the Cowboy Church Sunday School version is played at normal speed, the vocals sound unnaturally high. When played at 33⅓ rpm instead of 45 rpm the vocals sound more natural. The song was recorded at that speed, by Stuart Hamblen's wife and adult daughter, so that when played at 45 rpm the song sounds as if it is being sung by children.
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 ...
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.