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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.
I Ride an Old Paint is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Traveling the American Southwest , Sandburg found the song through western poets Margaret Larkin and Linn Riggs.
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 Old Chisholm Trail" (Roud 3438) is a cowboy song first published in 1910 by John Lomax in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. [1]The song dates back to the 1870s, when it was among the most popular songs sung by cowboys during that era.
"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]
It is believed to be a variation of a traditional Irish ballad about an old man rocking a cradle. [3] The cowboy adaptation is first mentioned in the 1893 journal of Owen Wister, author of The Virginian. [3] Through Wister's influence, the melody and lyrics were first published in 1910 in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. [3 ...
"I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)" is a comic song written by Johnny Mercer for the Paramount Pictures release Rhythm on the Range and sung by its star, Bing Crosby. The Crosby commercial recording was made on July 17, 1936, with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra for Decca Records . [ 1 ]
The song became a staple of the underscore of western films, to the point of being stereotyped. It also lent itself well to parody. In the 1943 cartoon "Yankee Doodle Daffy", Daffy Duck puts on a cowboy hat and rides Porky Pig like a horse, as the exasperated pig is trying to get rid of and away from the annoying duck, who sings these not-overly-clever lyrics to the same tune: [citation needed]