Only a Cowboy

DESCRIPTION: "Way out in old Texas, that great Lone Star State... on the old NA range, That the boy fell a victim on the old staked plains." "He was only a cowboy that's gone on before." The crew mourns when he is killed. He leaves a wife and children
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Lomax)
KEYWORDS: cowboy death family
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 438-439, "Only a Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4047
NOTES [7 words]: This is item dB45 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
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File: LDC438

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