I love the Katie Lee book, it's fun to read right through.

Here are some other books that haven't been mentioned yet in this thread.

"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" And Other Songs Cowboys Sing by Gut Logsdon (1989, 1995 paperback University of Illinois Press ISBN 0-252-06488-7)

Songs of the Wild West sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Simon & Shuster 1991 ISBN 0-671-74775-4)

Songs of the Great American West by Irwin Silber (1967, Dover Edition reprint 1995 ISBN 0-486-28704-1)

The Hell-Bound Train by Glenn Ohrlin (1973, 1989 paperback, Univwersity of Illinois Press ISBN 0-252-06071-7)

Cowboy and Western Songs by Austin and Alta Fife (1969 Creative Concepts PUblishing ISBN 1-56922-003-4)

Songs of the American West by LIngenfelter, Dwyer & Cohen (1968 Univ of California Press Lib Cong. 67-12220)

Songs of trhe Cowboys by N Howard "Jack" Thorpe. This was the first printed compilation of cowboy songs in 1908. Thorpe revised and expanded it in 1921. There has been considerable discussion over the years whether Lomax swiped some of Thorpe's material for his 1910 first edition of cowboy songs. Neither of Thorpe's books contains any music and a number of the songs were written by Thorpe himself, the most famous probably "Little Joe the Wrangler". The 1921 Thorpe edition was reprinted in 1984 by Univ. of Nebraska Press ISBN 0-8032-9403-4. The 1908 version of Thorpe was reprinted in 1966 with extensive commentary, additional texts and tunes by Austin and Alta Fife.

He Was Singin' This Song by Jim Bob Tinsley (1981 University of Central Florida, University Presses of Florida ISBN 0-8130-0683-X)

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