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Thread #13471   Message #111026
Posted By: katlaughing
03-Sep-99 - 04:30 AM
Thread Name: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
Well, Joe, they might be cuddlier in bed.*g*

This book has been rearranged and "edited for a general audience", i.e. "the best lines and verses of many of the most popular songs were woven together in composite", rather than fill it with several variants "as had become the custom in academia".

It includes "not only the songs created in cow camps and otehr imported and adapted....but also the sung poetry of the West."

Each chapter is a "different family of western songs":

Up the Trail
The Round-Up
Dodge City
Campfire and Bunkhouse
Sonofagun
& Way out West

So...none of them are in the same order as yours. There are no tunes for the ones you listed and the following are not even in this version:

Bill Peters, the Stage Driver
Hard Times (like you need that tune!)
Cole Younger
Mississippi Girls
The Old Man Under the Hill
Jerry, Go Ile That Car (I love Art's rendition!)

I hope that helps. BTW, Bookfinder had a few versions, different dates and I think one or two of this one, I just searched under Lomax, nothing else.

katwhoissofterthanasongbook!