Author Topic: Them Old Cowboy Songs  (Read 12432 times)

Offline southendmd

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Re: Them Old Cowboy Songs
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2014, 05:12:40 pm »
"Ennis knew the salty words to 'Strawberry Roan'"--short story

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX0FPaMwweU[/youtube]
Buddy Ebsen introduces Rex Allen, Sr.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQKhAxDnp8[/youtube]
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Re: Them Old Cowboy Songs
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2014, 05:14:10 pm »
Don´t know if this counts as "old" but I quite like "A Song of Wyoming" by John Denver
Hmm, your version doesn't show at all.  Here it is:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McDZK1ir5QI[/youtube]

I'm weary and tired I've done my day's ridin' nighttime is rolling my way
The sky's all on fire and the light's slowly fadin' peaceful and still ends the day
Out on the trail night birds are callin' singin' their wild melody
Down in the canyon cottonwood whispers a Song of Wyoming for me

I've wandered around the town and the city tried to figure the how and the why
I've stopped all my schemin' I'm just driftin' and dreamin'
Watching the river roll by
And here comes that big ole prairie moon risin' shinin' down bright as can be
And up on the hill there's a coyote singin' a Song of Wyoming for me

Well now it's whiskey and tobacco and bitter black coffee a lonesome old doggie am I
Waking up on the range Lord I feel like an angel free like I almost could fly
Drift like a cloud out over the badlands sing like a bird in the tree
The wind through the sage sounds like heaven singin' a Song of Wyoming for me
A Song of Wyoming for me


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Re: Them Old Cowboy Songs
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2014, 05:14:37 pm »
Ennis is quietly humming this song, just before he come on a bear:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KaXj9SK1TE[/youtube]


Oh, that's a very nice one!


Too bad the bear interrupted him!  ;D


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Re: Them Old Cowboy Songs
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2014, 05:45:13 pm »

Oh, that's a very nice one!


Too bad the bear interrupted him!  ;D

Yes, that is nice.  I like the instrumentation.  Here's another version, by Don Edwards, with old photos of Laredo, Texas.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_PlG3dtl8[/youtube]

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Re: Them Old Cowboy Songs
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2014, 05:50:34 pm »
Mark Weigle's "Two Cowboy Waltz", a modern favorite.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONOVpdKC8ng[/youtube]