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Cowboy Songs & Frontier Ballads

 

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Cowboys and pioneers spent a lot of slow moving time on the range and on the many trails westward. To pass the time, numerous songs and ballads were made up and sung along the way. For the vast majority of these historic lyrics, the author is unknown and many versions often existed. 

 

 

 

What keeps the herd from running,

Stampeding far and wide?
The cowboy's long, low whistle,
And singing by their side.

 

 

 

Cowboy Singing

Cowboy Singing, painting by Thomas Eakins, 1892

 

Arizona Killer

Back in the Saddle Again

Billy the Kid

The Boozer

Bucking Broncho

Buffalo Hunters

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

The California Stage Company

California Trail

The Camp Fire Has Gone Out

Cole Younger

The Convict

A Cow Camp on the Range

The Cowboy

The Cowboy at Work

The Cowboy's Dream

The Cowboy's Life

The Cowgirl

The Cowman's Prayer

The Days of Forty-Nine

Dogie Song

Down in the Valley

The Dreary, Dreary Life

Drinking Song

The Drunkard's Hell

The Gal I Left Behind Me

Git Along Little Dogies

The Great Round-Up

Hard Times

Hell In Texas

Here's To the Ranger

Home On the Range

The Horse Wrangler

I'd Like To Be In Texas

Jesse James

The Jolly Cowboy

The Kansas Line

The Last Longhorn

Little Sod Shanty

The Lone Star Trail

The Melancholy Cowboy

The Miner's Song

Mustang Gray

Night Herding Song

The Old Chisholm Trail

Old Cowboys Lament

The Old Gray Mule

Old Time Cowboy

Only A Cowboy

Out Where the West Begins

The Pecos Queen

The Rambling Cowboy

The Range Riders

Red River Valley

The Road to Cook's Peak

Sam Bass

San Antonio Rose

Strawberry Roan

Streets of Laredo

Sweet Betsy From Pike

Tall Men Riding

The Texas Cowboy

Texas Rangers

Top Hand

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Westward Ho

Wild Rovers

Windy Bill

Yellow Rose of Texas

Young Companions

 

Cowboy drinking

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No loopholes now are framing
Lean faces, grim and brown,
No more keen eyes are aiming
To bring the redskin down;
But every wind careening
Seems here to breathe a song
A song of brave careering,
A saga of the strong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Placer Miner.

Placer Miner.

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