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Book

Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads

Call Number

  • R 784.4 L83.2 (CEN)

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Edition

Rev. and enl.

Publication Information

New York : The Macmillan company, 1938.

Physical Description

xxxviii, 431 p. incl. facsims. 24 cm.

Notes

Some of the ballads with music (unaccompanied melodies)

Music edited by Edward N. Waters.

Contents

  • Cowboy's gettin'-up holler
  • Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies
  • The Colorado Trail
  • Doney gal
  • Me an' my doney-gal
  • Good-by, Old Paint
  • The skew-ball black
  • The Kansas line
  • George Britton
  • The lone star trail
  • The Texas cowboy
  • On the trail to Idaho
  • John Garner's trail herd
  • The crooked trail to Holbrook
  • The old Chisholm Trail
  • Clear rock's Chisholm Trail
  • Leadbelly's Chisholm Trail
  • Boggy Creek
  • The railroad corral
  • The cowboy's dream
  • The dying cowboy
  • Dogie song
  • The trail to Mexico
  • The Texas song
  • The gal I left behind me
  • Night-herding song
  • Gittin'-up hollers
  • Toast
  • Cowboy graces
  • Cowboy talks to a pitching horse
  • Diamond Joe
  • The cowboy
  • A cow camp on the range
  • Top hand
  • Pinto
  • When the work's all done this fall
  • The drifter
  • The zebra dun.
  • (Con't.) Charlie Rutledge
  • The cowboy at work
  • Bronc Peeler's song
  • Wild Bronc Peeler
  • Jess's dilemma
  • A prisoner for life
  • The convict
  • Little Joe, the wrangler
  • The old cowboy
  • The Pecos puncher
  • The U-S-U range
  • The dying cowboy of Rim Rock Ranch
  • The stampede
  • A Kansas cowboy
  • The rustler
  • Panhandle cob
  • Salty dogs
  • Jim Farrow
  • Windy Bill
  • Only a cowboy
  • Whose old cow?
  • The horse wrangler
  • The cowboy's meditation
  • Home, sweet home
  • Utah carroll
  • Ten thousand cattle
  • Ten thousand God-damn cattle
  • The boasting drunk in dodge
  • Drinking song
  • The desperado
  • The bad man from the Brazos
  • The cowboy
  • Billy the Kid
  • Quantrell
  • Roy Bean
  • Sam Bass
  • Jesse James
  • Juan Murray
  • Bow down your head and cry
  • The bad boy
  • Rye whisky
  • O-bar cowboy
  • The wild Montana boy
  • The cowboy
  • Buckskin Joe
  • The killer
  • The durant jail.
  • (Con't.) Red River shore
  • The wild rippling water
  • The range riders
  • Lackey Bill
  • The Peeler's lament
  • The old-time cowboy
  • The rambling cowboy
  • The rattlesnake
  • Bill Venero
  • Macaffie's confession
  • The Boston burglar
  • Fuller and Warren
  • Jack Donahoe
  • Young companions
  • Brown-eyed Lee
  • Bonnie Black Bess
  • The melancholy cowboy
  • A wild rattling cowboy
  • The dying desperado
  • Annie Breen
  • The white steed of the prairies
  • When I was a brave cowboy
  • Cowboy Jack
  • Young Charlottie
  • Silver Jack
  • The hell-bound train
  • A cowboy dance song
  • Rhymed dance calls
  • The Harrington barn dance
  • Cheyenne
  • The cowboy's Christmas ball
  • The cowboy's dance song
  • Jack O' diamonds or The rabble soldier
  • The Arizona boys and girls
  • Don't grow weary, boys
  • I am fur from my sweetheart
  • Dan Taylor
  • Lulu
  • Way out in Idyho
  • Rambling gambler.
  • (Con't.) Bucking bronco
  • The lovesick cowboy
  • The gol-darned wheel
  • The cowboy at church
  • The jolly cowboy
  • Old Rosin, the beau
  • The range riders
  • The cowboy's life
  • The state of Arkansas
  • Trail end
  • Once you git the habit
  • Poor lonesome cowboy
  • The Texas cowboys
  • The black tail range
  • Cyclone blues
  • Bob Stanford
  • The cowboy up to date
  • Red River Valley
  • Bury me out on the prairie
  • Great-Granddad
  • The lavender cowboy
  • The wandering cowboy
  • The dry-landers
  • Lone driftin' riders
  • The Sante Fe trail
  • The cowboy and his love
  • The llano Estacado
  • Speaking of cowboy's home
  • Hell in Texas
  • New national anthem
  • Two parodies
  • I wanted to die in the desert
  • The last longhorn
  • To midnight
  • The great round-up
  • The cowman's prayer
  • Rounded up in glory
  • The buffalo skinners
  • The Texian boys
  • The lone buffalo hunter.
  • (Con't.) The buffalo hunters
  • Sioux Indians
  • California Joe
  • The old scout's lament
  • A man named Hods
  • Pattonio, the pride of the plain
  • Texas rangers
  • Down south on the Rio Grande
  • Mustang Gray
  • Way down in Mexico
  • The dying ranger
  • Muster out the rangers
  • The disheartened ranger
  • Here's to the ranger!
  • The dreary black hills
  • The bloody injians
  • Joe Bowers
  • The days of Forty-nine
  • The fools of Forty-nine
  • The happy miner
  • The road to Cook's Peak
  • In the summer of Sixty
  • A ripping trip
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Bill Peters, the stage driver
  • The California Stage Company
  • Freighting from Wilcox to Globe
  • The bullwhacker
  • Brigham Young
  • The Mormon bishop's lament
  • A Mormon immigrant song
  • The little old sod shanty
  • Greer County
  • Life in a half-breed shack
  • Dakota land
  • The Kinkaiders
  • West Texas
  • Westward ho
  • The far, far West
  • The cowboy's lament
  • Sam Hall
  • A home on the range.

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