Mudcat Café message #2503529

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Thread #3444 Message #2503529
Posted By: Lighter
28-Nov-08 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: When I Was a Cowboy (Leadbelly)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was a Cowboy (Leadbelly)

Thanks, Lightnin'. When the Lomaxes published the song they cut out the stanzas they must have deemed uninspired. (Though "Over nineteen hundred/ Bullets around your ear" seems to look ahead 35 years to the movie "The Wild Bunch.")