Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Streets of Laredo, artist - John Cale. Album song Live At Rockpalast, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 29.04.2010
Record label: M.i.G. -
Song language: English
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 wrapped up in white linen |
Wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay |
«o beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly; |
Play the dead march as you carry me along |
Take me to the green valley and lay the sod o’re me |
For I’m a young cowboy and I know I done wrong.» |
«i see by your outfit that your are a cowboy.» |
These words he did say as I boldly stepped by |
«come sit down beside me and hear my sad story; |
I’m shot in the breast and I know I must die.» |
«my friends and relations they live in the nation: |
They know not where their dear boy has gone |
I first came to texas and hired to a ranchman |
O I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.» |
«it was once in the saddle I used to go dashing: |
It was once in the saddle I used to go gay |
First to the dram house and then to the card house |
Got shot in the breast and I’m dying today.» |
«get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin; |
Get six pretty maidens to sing me a song |
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin |
Put roses to deaden the cods as they fall.» |
«go gather around you a group of young cowboys |
And tell them the story of this my sad fate |
Tell one and the other before they go further |
To stop their wild roving before it’s too late.» |
«go bring me a cup, a cup of cold water |
To cool my parched lips,» the young cowboy said |
Before I returned the spirit had left him |
And gone to it’s maker--the cowboy was dead |
We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly |
And bitterly wept as we bore him along |
For awe all loved our comrade, so brave, young, and handsome |
We all loved our comrade although he’d done wrong |