Lyr Req: Roving Cowboy

Subject: ROVING COWBOY
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Date: 04 Mar 97 - 11:12 AM

Would like the lyrics to ROVING COWBOY sung by FRANK JENKINS with DaCosta Woltz's String Band - circa 1928 - recorded on Gennett 6223. Starts out - "Come all you roving cowboys..... My recording is almost impossible to understand. Would appreciate very much. Bill Kristensen

Subject: Lyr Add: ROVING COWBOY
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Date: 04 Mar 97 - 12:53 PM

ROVING COWBOY

Come all you roving cowboys, bound down this lowly land.
I'll tell to you a story while you around me stand.
I'm a-going to quit this wild west. It's a bleak and stormy plain;
For thinking I will leave you to never return again.

So sweetheart, my dear sweetheart, for sure dear I can't get along.
I left my dear old father, my country, and my home.
I left my dear old mother, to weep and to mourn,
Go be a roving cowboy, and with the cattle roam.

I left my home and friends so dear, with a many a parting tear.
My father followed saying, "My boy, my boy, I fear.
May God protect and guide you, and leave you not alone,
Or bring his roving cowboy, back to his native home."

This maiden fair and lovely sits closely by my side.
Tonight she promised faithful that she would be my bride.
So I kissed away a flowing tear, was dim to my blue eye.
I'll never forget my darling girl. I'll love her till I die.

I've tried the straits of rambling. I know their trial well.
I've crossed the Rocky Mountain, where a many a brave boy fell.
I've seen the far and distant countries, full of Indian, armed and wild.
I'll never forget my dear old home, nor mother's sweetest smile.

Hope these are the ones you are looking for. Thanks to RB for these lyrics.

Subject: RE: ROVING COWBOY
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Date: 04 Mar 97 - 03:22 PM

Exactly what I needed. Many, many thanks Bill Kristensen