I Want to Be a Cowboy

DESCRIPTION: "I want to be a cowboy and with the cowboys stand, Big spurs on my bootheels and a lasso in my hand." The singer desires life on the range, hopes to get drunk in Cheyenne, and expects to "rope the slant old heathen and yank them straight to hell."
AUTHOR: Words: D. J. O'Malley (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1894 (Miles City Stock Grower's Journal, April 7, 1894, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: cowboy drink derivative
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Pound-AmericanBalladsAndSongs, 79, pp. 173-174, "I Want to Be a Cowboy" (1 text)
Welsch-NebraskaPioneerLore, p. 10, "I Want to Be a Cowboy" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 331, "I Want to Be a Cowboy" (1 text)
Roud #4977
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Want to Be an Angel" (source song, according to Welsch)
File: LPnd173

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