Old Cowboy, The

DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls the hardships of his life as a cowboy "I've drunk water from the cow tracks, boys, when you bet it tasted good"; "I've starved and ate of the prickly pear"; "Been tortured by the Apaches." But now new cowboys are replacing him.
AUTHOR: Charlie Johnson (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Bandera, Texas Frontier Times, November 1925, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: cowboy work hardtimes
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 110, "The Old Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 409, "The Old Cowboy" (1 text)
Roud #11088
File: FCW110

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