Lyr Req: Cowboy version of 'Girl I left behind me

Subject: Lyr Req: Cowboy version of 'Girl I left behind me
From: GUEST,fiddler 434
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 04:07 PM

I know there are many versions of this old song, but I need the Cowboy Version. Can any one help?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cowboy version of 'Girl I left behind
From: GUEST,Michael Morris at work
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:21 PM

Bob Wills does an arrangement of it on volume one of the Tiffany Transcriptions. Could this be what you're looking for?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cowboy version of 'Girl I left behind me
From: Stewie
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:28 PM

I posted the Jules Allen version in this thread: CLICK HERE.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cowboy version of 'Girl I left behind me
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 07:22 PM

THE GAL I LEFT BEHIND ME 5

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cowboy version of 'Girl I left behind me
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 08:10 PM

The version "The Gal I Left Behind Me" 5, as sung by Jules Verne Allen, is not credited in the DT.
Jules Verne Allen, 1935, "Cowboy Lore," pp. 128-129, with music.

Two more "cowboy" versions are printed, with music, in Austin E. and Alta S. Fife, "Cowboy and Western Songs," No. 62, texts A & B, pp. 170-172. Neither has the first verse mentioning the herd, however. Text A is reproduced from the Oregon Spectator, July 14, 1854.
In a note to the song, the Fifes state that "It was played and sung by 'thousands of men led by the firemen and state militia band at the funeral of Julia Bulette, notorious Virginia City [NV] prostitute.'"