Streets of Laredo
The Streets Of Laredo
As I walked out in the
streets of Laredo
As I walked out
in Laredo one day
I spied a young
cowboy wrapped up in white linen
Wrapped up in white linen and
cold as the clay.
"I see by
your outfit that you are a cowboy"
These words he did say as I
boldly stepped by
"Come sit down
beside me and hear my sad story
I'm shot in the breast and I know
I must die."
Chorus:
"Oh beat the drum slowly and play
the fife lowly
Play the Dead
March as you carry me along
Take
me to the green valley and lay the sod o'er me
For I'm a young cowboy and I know
I've done wrong."
"It was
once in the saddle I used to go dashing
It was once in the saddle I used
to go gay
First to the dram house
and then to the card house
Got
shot in the breast and I'm dying today."
"Get six jolly cowboys to
carry my coffin
Get six pretty
maidens to bear up my pall
Put
branches of roses all over my coffin
Put roses to deaden the clods as
they fall."
Chorus
"Go bring me a cup, a cup
of cold water
To cool my parched
lips," the young cowboy said
Before I returned, the spirit had
left him
And gone to its Maker,
the cowboy was dead.
We
beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly
And bitterly wept as we bore him
along
For we all loved our
comrade, so brave, young and handsome
We all loved our comrade,
although he'd done wrong.
Chorus
Midi-Arrangement
von Barry Taylor
Posted: Do - Februar 19, 2004 at 05:40 Uhr