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Thread #20413   Message #4222136
Posted By: GUEST,RandyL
06-May-25 - 05:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Tom Sherman's Barroom
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tom Sherman's Barroom
A Life on the Open Range-- FRANK MAYNARD--EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY JIM HOY--FOREWORD BY DAVID STANLEY--

                      THE DYING COWBOY.

                              Song
             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 wrap[p]ed in white linen, as cold as the clay.
                                                                     
            "I see by your outfit that you're a ranger,"
            The words that he said as I went riding by,
          "Come, sit down beside me, and here my,
                sad story,
          I'm shot through the breast and know I must
                   die."

                Chorus---   Copies received Nov. 20,1911
          Then exc. ext.    Date of publication, Nov 11