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Sheet Music

For a cowboy has to sing : a collection of sixty romantic cowboy and Western songs, covering the fifty-year golden era of popular era of popular standards between 1905 and 1957

Call Number

  • R 784.8 T592 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Orlando : University of Central Florida Press, c1991.

Physical Description

314 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Notes

Cowboy songs.

"A collection of sixty romantic cowboy and Western songs, covering the fifty-year golden era of popular standards between 1905 and 1957."

Contents

  • Contents: Cheyenne
  • San Antonio
  • Pride of the prairie
  • My pony boy
  • Ragtime cow boy Joe
  • I'd like to be in Texas when they round up in the spring
  • Sierra Sue
  • Let the rest of the world go by
  • When it's springtime in the Rockies
  • Mexicali Rose
  • Utah trail
  • Goin' back to Texas
  • When the bloom is on the sage
  • When it's night-time in Neveda
  • Last round-up
  • When the cactus is in bloom
  • Texas plains
  • Timbling tumbleweeds
  • Carry me back to the lone prairie
  • Ridin' down that old Texas train
  • Ridin' down the canyon
  • Wagon wheels
  • Ole Faithful
  • Cowboy's heaven
  • I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart
  • Cattle call
  • Alla en el rancho grande (My ranch)
  • Take me back to my boots and saddle.
  • Contents (cont.): Don't fence me in (p.142)
  • Hills of old Wyomin' (p.146)
  • Cool water (p.153)
  • I'm an old cowhand (p.157)
  • Empty saddles (p.162)
  • Twilight on the trail (p.167)
  • Wah-hoo (p.172)
  • We'll rest at the end of the trail (p.178)
  • Oklahoma hills (p.183)
  • Old Buck-A-Roo (p.187)
  • Back in the saddle again (p.191)
  • Dust (p.196)
  • San Antonio Rose (p.202)
  • Leanin' on the ole top rail (p.208)
  • South of the border (Down Mexico way) (p.213)
  • Where the mountains meet the sky (I'm headin' for the blue horizon) (p.219)
  • Along the Santa Fe Trail (p.224)
  • Call of the canyon (p.230)
  • My adobe hacienda (p.236)
  • Cimarron (Roll on) (p.240)
  • Cowboy serenade (p.244)
  • Jingle jangle jingle (p.250)
  • Along the Navajo Trail (p.257)
  • Sioux City Sue (p.262)
  • Everlasting hills of Oklahoma (p.266).
  • Contnets (cont.): Blue shadows on the trail (p.270)
  • Pecos Bill (p.274)
  • Riders in the sky (A cowboy legend) (p.279)
  • Happy trails (p.284)
  • Gunsmoke (p.289)
  • High noon (Do not forsake me) (p.293)
  • El Paso (p.299).

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