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Thread #108898 Message #2582154
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Mar-09 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Poems and Songs of Charles Badger Clark
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BALLAD OF BILLY LEAMONT
THE BALLAD OF BILLY LEAMONT Fragment, in John A. Lomax, 1919 Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
"Billy Leamont rode out of the town- Close at his shoulder rode Jack Lorell- Over the leagues of the prairies brown, Into the hills where the sun goes down- Billy Leamont and Jack Lorell!
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Billy Leamont looked down the dell- Dead below him lay Jack Lorell- With his gun at his forehead he fired and fell, Then rode they two through the streets of hell- Billy Leamont and Jack Lorell!"
Lomax printed this at the beginning of "Ridin' Up the Rocky Trail from Town;" titled "From Town" in Sun and Saddle Leather. Not included in "From Town."