Francis Henry Maynard's book. (F.H. Maynard) Rhymes of the range and trail/ The Song The Dying Cowboy Lyrics were within the publication : Penned in 1876. The date of the copyright publication was Nov. 11, 1911. The book is at Baylor University. Clearly Frank overheard a old Irish ballad in 1876 and it was claimed by him to be the origin of the standard most are recognizing today as "The Streets of Laredo". No one at the time knew all the cowboys lyrics were tied to a Irish melody and everyone's burial chorus the original dying ranger or dying cowboy is about a Irish Bishops burial ("The Bard of Armagh") who died in 1717.

As I rode down by Tom Sherman's bar-room.
Tom Sherman's bar-room so early one day,
There I espied a handsome young ranger
All wraped in white linen, as cold as the clay.

"I see by your outfit that you are a ranger,"
The words that he said as I went riding by,
"Come, sit down beside me, and hear my sad story,
I'm shot through the breast and I know I must die."

CHORUS----
Then muffle the drums and play the dead marches;
Play the dead march as I'm carried along;
Take me to the church-yard and lay the sod o'er me,
I'm a young ranger and I know I've done wrong.