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Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Mar 00 - 08:58 PM Nope, sorry, lost them in a paper purge we had last year. All I remember is the chorus that went something like:
So stay for a while ere you leave me The verse I referred to said something like 'When you lie with the white girl you married, remember the red loved you more.... or something of that sentiment. I really wish I knew where I could find it. Mind you, there was a pretty good version on the Slim Whitman album of the same name, back in 1970something. Of course, I am probably wrong and someone will come up with the proper version, sometime, I don't care.... I'm terrible at remembering songs anyway.... But I do remember the bit about the longhorn cow, we used to sing that at guides! Wasn't it the theme from some James Stewart film? LTS |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: ddw Date: 06 Mar 00 - 10:23 PM Thumbing thru my albums today looking for the Hank Jr. tune I mentioned in my post above and found it; it's called Twodot Montana. I also came across the John Anderson tune I was trying to mention above and found — to my embarrassment — that it's really called "An Occasional Eagle," not "Sometimes An Eagle." They say the memory's the second thing to go and I can't remember what the first is.... david|
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Frankie Date: 06 Mar 00 - 11:28 PM Thanks, Liz, that's something to go on anyway. It sounds like a very different take on the RRV I'm used to. As for the longhorn cow song, I learned it around a Texas campfire but it may well have wound up in Hollywood. Regards, Frankie PS Another good one is Roundup Time in Texas [When the Bloom Is on the Sage] which has a fun, ragtimey feel to it. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: John in Brisbane Date: 06 Mar 00 - 11:35 PM I particularly like 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds' because it's fairly demanding to sing well and the tune is written in three separate parts which don't follow the predictable sequence of verse, chorus, middle eight, etc. It was probably written in Tin Pan Alley somewhere - does anyone know, please? Regards, John |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Axeman Date: 06 Mar 00 - 11:37 PM Would have to be Willie Nelson's "The Red Headed Stranger". Used to listen to it under the high plains night skies... bands of the Milky Way were so close we could touch 'em. -Axe' |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Metchosin Date: 07 Mar 00 - 12:31 AM John it was written by Nolan and as one of the Sons of the Pioneers was Bob Nolan, I would assume it was him. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: John in Brisbane Date: 07 Mar 00 - 08:04 PM Thanks Metchosin - I am only vaguely aware of Sons of the Pioneers. The old fashioned vocal harmonies that I've heard a long time ago were really great. Does anyone know if the harmonies are in print anywhere? Regards, John |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: TheOldMole Date: 07 Mar 00 - 08:32 PM Speaking of Jimmy Stewart westerns, what about the themes from "The Man From Laramie" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"? |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Songster Bob Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:53 AM I sing the original version of "A Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue)", with its unconscious racist line "She was Mex and I was white," though in performance I usually repeat the line "They want me for that gambling fight." Whatever line I sing, it's still one of my favorite Western songs. My trio, "Sidekicks," does mostly Western songs, so I've heard a lot of the ones mentioned already. Another great one is "Old Bill Pickett," about a black cowboy and rodeo star of the 20s, but it's not "beautiful" the way some of the others mentioned here are. If Sidekicks ever does a recording (more than our four-song demo, that is), more folks will have the chance to hear George Stephens sing "Blue Mountain" or "Night Rider's Lament" or "Stockman's Last Bed" (an Aussie drover song). That's a treat to look forward to, as some of the DC folks can attest to. Bob Clayton |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BlueSage Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:59 PM I'm astonished that "Blue Mountain" made this list as much as it has. I had no idea that the popularity of this "Utah" tune had spread out across the country. I learned the song about 20 years ago from a field recording in the Austin Fife archives residing at Utah State University. If anyone is passing through the southern Utah town of Monticello, stop at the city park. On the south side of the park are mounted some tubes which, when looked through, will focus your eyes on the "horse head" mentioned in the song. This is a natural feature of the mtn. and is quite interesting. I believe "Blue Mtn." is sort of the unofficial anthem of south-eastern Utah! Mike Iverson |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Kim C Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:38 PM Ohmagawd, I LOVE cowboy music. It's my true first love but believe it or not, here in Tennessee, there ain't much call for yodelers. My all-time favorite cowboy song is Michael Burton's Night Rider's Lament. I just love the lonesome feel of the song, plus it is one of the first songs I yodeled in public. So it's a little special. Also, the Great Don Edwards recorded Badger Clark's poem, "A Bad Half Hour" to the tune of "Annie Laurie." This makes me bawl no matter how many times I hear it. The downside is that I think of it whenever I perform Annie Laurie! Oh well. I really love all the old songs, plus a bunch of the new ones (Ian Tyson & Don Edwards especially). The Cowboy Celtic album ain't too bad. Regards ---Kim |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Alice Date: 08 Mar 00 - 03:19 PM These are not necessarily my favorite cowboy songs, but I thought I would add this to the thread for those who may be interested. I have an old 1933 songbook of songs of the West that I found in my family's stack of old sheet music. The cover is torn off, but most of the songs are there. These are songs that were popular enough out here to be included in the songbook. The Man On the Flying Trapeze may seem out of place, but it was very popular, and my grandparents used to play it at country dances. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies Red River Valley (Liz, I've never heard the verse you mention) The Man on the Flying Trapeze (8 verses) Old Paint Jesse James, The Train Robbery Just My Gal and I Great Grand-Dad Hard Luck I Should Like To Marry The Big Rock Candy Mountain (hobo song, really) She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain The Cowboy Blanche, The Pride of the Ranch When the Work's All Done This Fall My Love Is A Rider [Bucking Bronco?] The Dreary, Dreary Life They Dying Cowboy (Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie)
Ten Thousand Cattle /a>
Old Zip Coon (Turkey in the Straw)
Night Herding Song (Slow Dogie Slow)
The Last Request
Wait For The Wagon
The Little Red Caboose behind the Train
Billy Boy
If you need the music, let me know and I will scan and post pages to my website.
Alice Flynn in Montana |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST Date: 18 Mar 03 - 11:14 PM Just happened to stumble onto this forum while searching for the lyrics to Glenn Ohrlin's "My Harding County Home". I am a college student, living away from my Harding County home (the song's true namesake and subject!)--a copy of the lyrics would mean alot to me! Much thanks in advance! |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos Date: 18 Mar 03 - 11:23 PM Well, I have always been partial to "Lavender Cowboy" and (beggin' your pardons ma'ams, and present company excepted of course) "I've Got No Use for the Women". I love "The Strawberry Roan" and the standards like "Old Paint" "The Old Chisholm Trail" and "Git Along, Little Dogies", and probably the most-shagged song of all time, "Streets of Laredo". A |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Rapparee Date: 19 Mar 03 - 01:02 AM Little Joe the Wrangler Zebra Dun Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing Old Shep The Old Chisholm Trail (both the clean and bawdy versions) come to mind right now. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: open mike Date: 19 Mar 03 - 02:11 AM i heard an irish song on st pat's and the tune was st. of laredo- any one know which song this would have been? i forgot what the irish lyrics were, cuz when i heard it i jsut kept thinking of that young man with the face of clay...and the outfit of a cowboy. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 19 Mar 03 - 02:30 AM Open Mike, probably The Bard Of Armagh, Seamus |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Jim Colbert Date: 19 Mar 03 - 10:32 AM You can't go wrong with virtually anything from Marty Robbins's Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, or Tom Russell's Cowboy Real and Songs from the West. I was always fond of Art Thieme's rendering of Cowboy's Barbara Allen too... and Dobie Bill. I guess that's more a gunfighter song than a cowboy song if you want to split horsehairs. I'd reckon my absolute favorites, albeit not traditional, are Russell's The Sky Above, The Mud Below; Sonora's Death Row as recorded by Richard Shindell (yes, don't argue with me, it was on a relatively rare sampler which is available- drop me a line if you're interested) and Marty's recording of Utah Carroll. And yes, there is at least one Sons of the Pioneers disc in print; Collectors Choice Music has it- my wife got it for me for Christmas this year. jim |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Midchuck Date: 19 Mar 03 - 10:44 AM Two new ones that I've just learned and have been singing to the point of driving those around me crazy: Bandolier, by Jack Hardy, off his new CD of the same title. Mick Ryan's Lament, from the Tim O'Brien Two Journeys CD. (The melody is "Garryowen>") Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Bill D Date: 19 Mar 03 - 10:49 AM if you go to Rose, the Record Lady, you can HEAR many cowboy and C&W songs....many means several thousand! click here to see a list by title. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Wesley S Date: 19 Mar 03 - 11:17 AM Theres a new CD out entitled "High Lonesome Cowboy" by Peter Rowan and Don Edwards. They are joined by Tony Rice and Norman Blake. I can't recommend it enough. I'm sure you'll like it. Great cowboy songs with a bit of a bluegrass edge to it. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: ard mhacha Date: 19 Mar 03 - 11:47 AM I had an old recording of Woody Guthrie singing I Ride an Old Paint, which I always liked, and then I heard Linda Ronstadt singing this song a few weeks ago, pure magic. So, Old Paint is tops. Bing Crosby singing Home on the Range, and Hank Williams, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, pure poetry. Ard Mhacha. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos Date: 19 Mar 03 - 11:54 AM Actually, I have loved Night Rider's Lament ever since I learned it from Mudjack last summer. A |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: allanwill Date: 19 Mar 03 - 12:18 PM A couple of Steve Goodman songs, Roving Cowboy and Spoon River, would fit very nicely. Allan |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BUTTERFLY Date: 19 Mar 03 - 12:55 PM Dave Oesterreich (5.3.2000) mentioned the song "Bury Me Out on the Prairie" with lyrics: "Wrap me up in my blanket, Bury me deep in the ground Cover me over with boulders Of granite, gray and round." This seems to come from "I've Got No Use for the Women". Although not deeply into Cowboy songs this is one of the best tunes in the "Cowboy Song" section of a CD-ROM I purchased from Rod Smith in England not too long back (it contains the lyrics and music for over 6,000 songs, mainly folk-oriented, for less than £20 (c. $30). The other nice tunes in this section have mostly been mentioned either under the same names as on the CD-ROM, eg "The Trail to Mexico", "Streets of Laredo" or others, eg "Stern Old Bachelor" is presumably the same as "Little Old Sod Shanty". However, 2 very nice ones ("Hell in Texas" and "Sioux Indians") have not been mentioned by anyone yet. Some of these songs are on the website www.traditionalmusic.co.uk though unfortunately many have had to be removed from the website "due to restrictions on band width". Worth checking this out (I have no connection with Mr. Smith other than as a satisfied customer. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 19 Mar 03 - 12:59 PM Woody's great song "Philadelphia Lawyer" is in the DT. This was one cowboy that you didn't mess with! |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Jim Colbert Date: 19 Mar 03 - 01:58 PM Boy, I never really thought of Spoon River (written by Mike Smith, I believe) to be a cowboy/western song... but I can see how you could due to the time frame. Did Masters have a specific time frame in mind? I honestly can't recall. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Mudlark Date: 19 Mar 03 - 04:16 PM For good old-fashioned country-western sentimentality there is nothing better than the Mom and Dad’s Waltz. On a lighter but more lugubrious note, Tyson's Darcy Farrow. And I think Pancho and Lefty is one of the great all-time Western theme songs. Also, Oklahoma Hills ("Way down yonder in the Indian Nation...") by Jack Guthrie is fun to sing, ditto Waiting for a Train (All around the Water Tank), by I think Jimmie Rodgers? |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Bill D Date: 19 Mar 03 - 05:44 PM at Rose, the Record Lady's site mentioned above, you can hear two versions of "Oklahoma Hills" (am I pushing Rose? *grin*...you betcha!) 'Oklahoma Hills' - Hank Thompson (A-8) 'Oklahoma Hills' - Jack Guthrie (A-8) |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BanjoRay Date: 19 Mar 03 - 06:06 PM How come nobody's mentioned The Tennessee Stud, written by Jimmy Driftwood and performed by Doc Watson on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken album? Totally perfect musical poetry, with superb guitar picking! Ray |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Bruce Date: 19 Mar 03 - 07:42 PM Buddies in the Saddle, Carter Family |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BROWN EYED LEE From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 19 Mar 03 - 10:14 PM I'd like to add a couple of others "I'd Like to Be in Texas When They Round Up in the Spring", "That's How The Girls Are In Texas" and this one "Brown Eyed Lee" BROWN EYED LEE Kind friends, if you will listen, a story I will tell About the final bust-up that happened down in Bell I courted a brown-eyed maiden known by the name of Lee And when I popped the question, she said she'd marry me. I went and bought the license March eighteen ninety-nine Expecting in a few days the darling would be mine Her mother grew quite angry and said it could not be She said she had another, picked out for Brown-eyed Lee. She talked to friends and neighbors and said that she would fight, She'd get her old six-shooter out and put old Red to flight. But lovers laugh at shooters, and the old she-devil, too. I said I'd have my darling if she did not prove untrue. I borrowed Dad's old buggy and got Jim's forty-one. And started down to Kerns's, thinking I would have some fun. I'm not the one to craw-fish when I am in a tight; I said "I'll have my angel and not be put to flight. I went on down to Kerns's with the devil in my head, I said, "I'll have my darling, or I'll leave the old folks dead." Good fortune fell upon me, my darling proved untrue. I gave her back her letters and bid her a fond adieu. I pressed her to my aching heart, kissed her a last farewell, And prayed a permanent prayer to God to send her Ma to hell. I sold my cows to J.M.G. my corn to K.M.P And cursed the day I first met that darling brown-eyed Lee. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 20 Mar 03 - 10:21 AM Butterfly mentioned "I've Got No Use for the Women". It's in the DT, at THIS LOCATION Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Beccy Date: 20 Mar 03 - 10:56 AM I luh-uh-uh-uhve, The Rivers of Texas, as recorded by Bill Staines. Beccy |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Mr Happy Date: 20 Mar 03 - 11:28 AM I've a few songs of this genre in my current repertoire. A Four-Legged Friend, Abilene, Folsom Prison Blues, Lonesome Pine, Cool Water |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Banjoman Date: 20 Mar 03 - 12:30 PM Lots of great songs, but if you want one that pokes a bit of fun at the old west while still hitting a hard message, listen to Debby McClatchy singing "Seeing the Elephant" It's on one of her early LP's and I don't know who wrote it. Good Luck with your search |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,boromir Date: 20 Mar 03 - 01:27 PM The best cowboy song ever written was Blue Shadows on the Trail by Johnny Lange and Eliot Daniel. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Beccy Date: 20 Mar 03 - 01:29 PM Boromir- Did you ever hear Martin Short, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase (I kid you not...) do that one? Beccy |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Hrothgar Date: 21 Mar 03 - 02:36 AM Depending on the mood I'm in - The Goodnight-Loving Trail Colorado Trail Little Joe the Wrangler Home on the Range Red River Valley I Ride an Old Paint (yep, Ard Macha, love Ronstadt's version) |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Dave Bryant Date: 21 Mar 03 - 08:53 AM There was a song - I think it was written by Ian Petrie, which had the chorus: You can tell all your friends when you heat those hoofbeats thrum, That the nearest thing to Silver is the Lone Ranger's Bum. I'll try and find the rest. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Mudlark Date: 21 Mar 03 - 04:48 PM Beccy...Re Blue Shadows and The Three Amigos...they did a pretty good job of it too, I thought. Not too shabby with My Little Buttercup either, dance routine not withstanding! |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: JedMarum Date: 07 May 06 - 04:54 PM KIM C - your comments re: Annie Laurie and Night Rider's Lament ... I played the Sam Houston Folk Fest just a couple of weeks ago with Don Edwards and some very very fine cowboy singers. Don did a just beautiful version of this song. With 1000 people at the festival, you could have heard a pin drop while he was singing. It was something to behold. Great song and a lovely tie from the cowboy to this fine old Scottish song! |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Lucyann Date: 12 Apr 08 - 07:25 PM Does anyone have the lyrics for this song? I know that Ed Trickett sings "A Bad Half Hour" to the tune of "Annie Laurie." |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: fumblefingers Date: 12 Apr 08 - 09:31 PM "Ridin' Down the Canyon." Roy Rogers and Smiley Burnette sang it, among others. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: katlaughing Date: 13 Apr 08 - 01:14 AM Guest, Lucyann, Usually it is best to start a whole new thread to request lyrics. You did a good job of finding a related thread, though.:-) Anyway, I have started a thread for you with the word of Badger Clark's poem, which Don Edwards set to Annie Laurie. You can find the thread by clicking HERE. Welcome to the Mudcat. kat |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: open mike Date: 13 Apr 08 - 02:17 AM One I discovered this year was "Corn, Water and Wood", a Christmas song. It is by Carol Elliot and has been sung by Riders in the Sky, Michael Martin Murphey, Bryndle, and others. Also one called the Gift by Stephanie Davis. Another Christmas one. There is a song called The Gift by Ian Tyson, too, about Charles M. Russell. I also like to perform another Canadian song -- Cowboy Christmas by Connie Kaldor and BIM. And a poem from Austrailian whose name I forget...not Banjo Paterson.. When the Children Come Home..oh yes, Henry Lawson... And another song by a Canadian...Small Victory, by Garnet Rogers...about a horse that he got at auction, and she was destined for the glue factory. She gave birth to a colt which was named Victory. |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos Date: 13 Apr 08 - 04:24 AM The Glory Trail (High-Chin Bob), a great modern cowboy ballad. A |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: horace hockey Date: 13 Apr 08 - 07:19 AM Without a doubt, my favorite is Streets of Laredo. I am just a beginner on banjo but hope to someday create a song about the American Mustang. I am the activity director of the Indiana Mustang and Burro Association. Our group supports the BLM adoption program. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: A BORDER AFFAIR (Charles Badger Clark) From: GUEST Date: 13 Apr 08 - 08:40 AM My favorite is "A Border Affair" by Charles Badger Clark ... also known as "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" ... back in the early '60s, Ian Tyson cleaned it up by getting rid of the interracial relationship at its core ... he also reversed some words in the last verse ... seems that every person that I've heard do this since then has the last verse screwed up (thanks to Mr. Tyson) ... he sings, "left my heart and lost her own" Spanish is the loving tongue Soft as music, light as spray Was a girl I learned it from Living down Sonora way I don't look much like a lover Yet I say her love words over Often when I'm all alone Mi amore mi Corazon Nights when she knew where I'd ride She would listen for my spurs Fling the big door open wide Raise them laughin' eyes of hers And my heart would not stop beating When I heard her tender greeting Whispered soft for me alone Mi amore mi Corazon Moonlight in the patio Old Senora nodding near Me and Juana talking low So the Madre couldn't hear How those hours would go a-flyin' And too soon I'd hear her sighin' In her little sorry tone Adios mi Corazon But one time I had to fly For a foolish gamblin' fight, And we said a swift goodbye In that black unlucky night When I'd loosed her arms from clingin' With her words the hoofs kept ringin' As I galloped north alone Adios mi Corazon Never seen her since that night I can't cross the Line, you know She was Mex and I was white Like as not it's better so Yet I've always sort of missed her Since that last wild night I kissed her Left her heart and lost my own Adios mi Corazon |
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Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,richard Date: 09 Sep 10 - 11:51 PM been trying to get a copy of a 78rpm record that I bought in the UK in the 1950s that had this song on one side and In 1992 on the flip. Does anyone remember them or who sang them? |
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