Old Time Cowboy (Melancholy Cowboy)

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you melancholy folks wherever you may be, I'll sing about the cowboy whose life is light and free." We are told "his heart is gay," "they're a little bit rough... but if you do not hunt a quarrel you can live with them in peace," etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1908 (Thorp)
KEYWORDS: cowboy nonballad
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Thorp/Fife-SongsOfTheCowboys XIX, pp. 240-243 (40-41), "Old Time Cowboy" (2 texts, 1 tune); Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 121-122, "Old-Time Cowboy" (1 text)
Ohrlin-HellBoundTrain 17, "Old-Time Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 340-341, "Old Time Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ArkansasWoodchopper, pp. 33-34, "The Melancholy Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee's _Songs of the Range: Cowboy Wails of Cattle Trails_, Chart Music, 1937, p. 8, "Come All You 'Solemncholly' Folks
" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8046
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Come All Ye Melancholy Folks
NOTES [38 words]: ArkansasWoodchopper credits this to M. Segal but lists a 1931 copyright claim, and we know the song is older, so I don't think we can credit the attribution. Thorp attributes it to someone named Rogers but gives no details. - RBW
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File: TF19

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