Lavender Cowboy, The

DESCRIPTION: "He was only a lavender cowboy, The hairs on his chest were two." Troubled by dreams, the boy tries all sorts of worthless hair nostrums. At last he "battled for Red Nellie's honor... He died with his six-guns a-blazing And only two hairs on his chest."
AUTHOR: Harold Brainerd Hersey (source: Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (recording, Ewen Hail); reportedly written 1923
KEYWORDS: death dream cowboy fight
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 39, "The Lavender Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 30, "The Lavender Cowboy" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 296, "Lavender Cowboy" (notes only)
DT, LAVCOWBY
Roud #11213
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Lavender Cowboy" (Bluebird B-8229, 1939)
Ewen Hail, "Lavendar Cowboy" (Brunswick 141, 1927; Brunswick 433, 1930)
NOTES [19 words]: Vernon Dalhart recorded this song in 1938 in an ill-fated comeback on Bluebird, only to see the song blacklisted. - RBW
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