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DYING RANGER (THE COWBOY'S LAMENT; THE UNFORTUNATE RAKE) Sung by: Jewel Hawkins Recorded in Batesville, AR 7/30/62 Click here to listen to the original recording It's once in my saddle I used to ride gay. I first up to drinking, and then to card-playing. Got shot by a gambler; now dying I lay. Go beat your drum slowly, go play your violy, Go beat the dead marches as you carry me away. Go carry me to the graveyard, there lay the grave o'er me. I am a young cowboy; God knows I've done wrong. Go write me a letter to my gray-headed mother, And one to my brother and sister so dear, But there is another more dear than brother Who'd weep if she knew I was dying out here. Also found in Randolph, Vol. II, #182, "The Cowboy's Lament"; Brown, Vol. II, #263, "The Unfortunate Rake"; Belden, p. 392, "The Unfortunate Rake." |
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