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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 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.
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 ...
"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]
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was the radio show theme song for New York City's long running, award-winning public radio show, Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch (1976–1988), hosted by Paul Aaron, New York's Cowboy Joe. During one of his radio shows Paul Aaron had the elder Joe Abrahams (the original Cowboy Joe) as a special guest.
Her song is based on Stuart Hamblen's western song Texas Plains: he is therefore credited as a cowriter. Patsy Montana embellished the simpler musical pattern of the original, especially with her yodeling. Patsy also used a lot of the original words: the song is somewhat of a feminine answer to its precursor.
Record label for Bing Crosby's 1936 Decca recording of "Empty Saddles" "Empty Saddles (in the Old Corral)" is a classic American cowboy song written by Billy Hill.Hill based the song on a poem by J. Keirn Brennan grieving for lost companions. [1]