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Thread #57389   Message #2885463
Posted By: GUEST,Mike in Jersey
13-Apr-10 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: Streets of Laredo - 'Live in the Nation'??
Subject: RE: Streets of Laredo
Back in the late 50's and early 60's we used to sing the "Cloggy" version.
The next verses went something like this:-

He said "From your attire I see you're a climber
I see you're a climber and so once was I
But I went out a climbing on the Great Slab of Clogwen
And fell from the Bow and I'm going to die"

Give me six stalwart climbers to carry my coffin
And six pretty maidens to weep at my head
.............(I can't remember the next two lines.

The final verse went:-

"Bury me deep at the foot of great Clogwen
Deep in the sound of the wild ravens' call
Put a sod on my feet and one on my head
To deaden the screams of my friends as they fall"

Cloggy refers to Clogwy d'ur Arddu ( described in the book "The Black Cliff". It stands under the Snowdon railway and is the backwall of Cwm d'ur Arddu. The "Bow" and "Great Slab" are famous climbing routes on the crag.