The Cowboy's Dream is a song set to the tune of My Bonnie. Carl Samberg was famous for collecting new beginnings of new words of old folk songs from England and Scotland. Ehe first time that a a British song got sent to the USA was a song called O How The Money Rolls In first recored in 1905 by the Hayden Quartet with Henry Burr and Len Spencer. The Cowboy's Dream was first recorded by Texas Slim Clark. In 1929 the best remembered recording is in 1950 by Rex Allen there were other songs to the same tune but they cant be found nowhere cause some were made to kids cub and scouts songs and football chant songs as well, from Joe.