Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Cowboy's Lament (The Streets Of Laredo), artist - Burl Ives. Album song The Wayfaring Stranger - The Golden Years, in the genre Релакс
Date of issue: 17.05.2003
Record label: Jasmine
Song language: English
Cowboy's Lament (The Streets Of Laredo) |
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo |
As I walked out in Laredo one day |
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen |
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay |
I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy |
These words he did say as I boldly walked by |
Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story |
I’m shot in the breast and I know I must die |
It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing |
Once in the saddle I used to go gay |
First down to Rosie’s and then to the card house |
Got shot in the breast and I’m dying today |
Get sixteen gamblers to carry my coffin |
Get six jolly cowboys to sing me a song |
Take me to the graveyard and lay the sod o’er me |
For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong |
Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin |
Get six pretty maidens to sing me a song |
Take me to the valley and lay the sod o’er me |
For I’m a young cowboy, I know I’ve done wrong |
Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly |
Play the Dead March as they carry me along |
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin |
Put roses to deaden the clods as they fall |
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo |
As I walked out in Laredo one day |
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen |
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay |