Cowboy's Life (II), The

DESCRIPTION: "The cowboy's life is a dreary old life, All out in the sleet and snow, When the winter comes, he begins to think Where his summer wages go." He heads out looking for fun. He loses his money in a poker game and heads back to the ranch to seek work again
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (Dobie, Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: cowboy hardtimes gambling cards work | poker snow
FOUND IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 347, "The Cowboy's Life" (1 text)
Roud #838
NOTES [59 words]: Roud lumps this, and all songs that refer in the first line to a cowboy's dreary life, as #838, which is mostly the song filed in the Ballad Index as "A Cowboy's Life." I agree that that probably inspired this. But this is specifically about the cowboy losing his bankroll in a card game; it really looks like a deliberate rewrite. So I've split it off. - RBW
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File: LDC347

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