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Cowboys up and down the trail revised The Cowboy's Lament, and in his memoir, Maynard alleged that cowboys from Texas changed the title to "The Streets of Laredo" after he claimed authorship of the song in a 1924 interview with journalism professor Elmo Scott Watson, then on the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [3]
The many variants feature various young soldiers, sailors, maids, and cowboys, being "cut down in their prime" and contemplating their deaths. [14] It has been claimed that a similar story set to a different tune become the standard "St. James Infirmary Blues". [15] This claim has been disputed on various grounds. [16]
As the cowboys gathered to see him die. "O bury me not on the lone prairie Where coyotes howl and the wind blows free In a narrow grave just six by three— O bury me not on the lone prairie" "It matters not, I've been told, Where the body lies when the heart grows cold Yet grant, o grant, this wish to me O bury me not on the lone prairie."
A number of different variants use the same melody, including the sub-family known as "The Cowboy's Lament", of which "Streets of Laredo" is perhaps currently the best known. This tune is also used for a different song, "The Bard of Armagh". The nineteenth century broadsheet versions from the British Isles were printed without tunes.
Hubbard then assembled a band of friends and locals and, in 1976, released Ray Wylie Hubbard and the Cowboy Twinkies. [6] Unbeknownst to Hubbard, producer Michael Brovsky had decided to "Nashville-ize" the sound by adding overdub mixes and female backup singers to the recordings.
"Laredo" (2:56) - Also known as "The Cowboy's Lament" "Cabbage" (6:37) - The boys' version of the American folk song includes Tom's history lesson on railroads, pumas and 'cravices' . "Map of the World (Let the Rest of the World Go By)" (2:05) - The story of a young lady who showed up to a costume party tattooed as a map of the world.
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.
Nathan Howard "Jack" Thorp (June 10, 1867 – June 4, 1940) was an American collector and writer of cowboy songs and cowboy poetry. Starting in 1889, he collected cowboy material while living in New Mexico. His small book Songs of the Cowboys was published there in 1908.