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RandyL Origins: The Dying Cowboy (33) RE: Origins: The Dying Cowboy 25 Feb 22

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This recording was made by John McCormack on March 30, 1920.
The melody of The Bard of Armagh was used for the American country music hit song The Streets of Laredo. In 1911 the original unchanged copyrighted lyrics to The Streets of Laredo found the Author in a 1924 newspaper article in colorado. And in 1930 The first singing cowboy in Hollywood sang his version and titled it The Cowboy's Lament because the original version The Dying Cowboy was penned in 1876.

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