I'm really curious about the melody for this song. Especially the one sung by Dick Devall.

It's been established on this thread and others that "Streets of Laredo"'s melody comes from "Bard of Armagh", which in turn evolved from "The Banks of the Devon" / "The Brown Dairymaid" (possibly with "A Sailor and a Soldier Were Walking One Day" as an intermediary step), but that melody really seems to stick with songs closer related to "Laredo" than other ballads in the family.

There are plenty of modal melodies the song has been sung with over the years, but none with the drama of Devall. Was his melody closer to what "The Dying Girl's Lament" that Francis Maynard based his words around? Or do we know what that melody would have been?