Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John Lomax
156 chapters · 6 h 36 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Nemo, Jack Allan, Michael Fassio, Scotty Smith, Kurt and others
Anthologies · Ballads
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John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" is his collection that propelled him to the forefront of his field and ignited new interest in American folklore, inspiring many to continue research. For his contributions to the field of cowboy music, Locas was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Many of the verses here are accompanied by musical scores, and some may be more familiar in their musical form such as "A Home on the Range." A wide array of characters and life across the western United States is represented here. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 Dedication 2 min 2 Introduction 5 min 3 Collector's Note 16 min 4 The Dying Cowboy 4 min 5 The Days of Forty-nine 3 min 6 Joe Bowers 3 min 7 The Cowboy's Dream 2 min 8 The Cowboy's Life 2 min 9 The Kansas Line 2 min 10 The Cowman's Prayer 1 min 11 The Miner's Song 3 min 12 Jesse James 3 min 13 Poor Lonesome Cowboy 2 min 14 Buena Vista Battlefield 3 min 15 Westward Ho 1 min 16 A Home on the Range 2 min 17 Texas Rangers 3 min 18 The Mormon Bishop's Lament 4 min 19 Dan Taylor 2 min 20 When Work Is Done This Fall 3 min 21 Sioux Indians 2 min 22 The Old Chisholm Trail 4 min 23 Jack Donahoo 2 min 24 Utah Carroll 3 min 25 The Bull-whacker 3 min 26 The "Metis" Song of the Buffalo Hunters 2 min 27 The U-S-U Range 3 min 28 The Cowboy's Lament 4 min 29 Love In Disguise 2 min 30 Mustang Gray 2 min 31 Young Companions 2 min 32 Lackey Bill 5 min 33 Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies 2 min 34 I'm A Good Old Rebel 2 min 35 The Cowboy 3 min 36 Bill Peters, The Stage Driver 2 min 37 Hard Times 3 min 38 Cole Younger 2 min 39 Mississippi Girls 3 min 40 The Old Man Under the Hill 2 min 41 Jerry, Go Ile That Car 2 min 42 John Garner's Trail Herd 3 min 43 The Old Scout's Lament 2 min 44 The Lone Buffalo Hunter 3 min 45 The Crooked Trail to Holbrook 3 min 46 Only a Cowboy 2 min 47 Fuller and Warren 3 min 48 The Trail to Mexico 4 min 49 The Horse Wrangler 3 min 50 California Joe 8 min 51 The Boston Burglar 2 min 52 Sam Bass 3 min 53 The Zebra Dun 4 min 54 The Buffalo Skinners 4 min 55 Macaffie's Confession 3 min 56 Little Joe, The Wrangler 3 min 57 Harry Bale 2 min 58 Foreman Monroe 4 min 59 The Dreary Black Hills 2 min 60 A Mormon Song 3 min 61 The Buffalo Hunters 2 min 62 The Little Old Sod Shanty 3 min 63 The Gol-darned Wheel 5 min 64 Bonnie Black Bess 3 min 65 The Last Longhorn 3 min 66 A Prisoner for Life 2 min 67 The Wars of Germany 3 min 68 Freighting from Wilcox to Globe 4 min 69 The Arizona Boys and Girls 3 min 70 The Dying Ranger 3 min 71 The Fair Fannie Moore 3 min 72 Hell in Texas 3 min 73 By Markentura's Flowery Marge 2 min 74 The State of Arkansaw 3 min 75 The Texas Cowboy 3 min 76 The Dreary, Dreary Life 3 min 77 Jim Farrow 2 min 78 Young Charlottie 4 min 79 The Skew-Ball Black 2 min 80 The Rambling Cowboy 2 min 81 The Cowboy at Church 3 min 82 The U. S. A. Recruit 2 min 83 The Cowgirl 1 min 84 The Shanty Boy 1 min 85 Root Hog or Die 3 min 86 Sweet Betsy from Pike 3 min 87 The Disheartened Ranger 3 min 88 The Melancholy Cowboy 2 min 89 Bob Stanford 2 min 90 Charlie Rutlage 2 min 91 The Range Riders 2 min 92 Her White Bosom Bare 4 min 93 Juan Murray 2 min 94 Greer County 3 min 95 Rosin the Bow 2 min 96 The Great Round-Up 2 min 97 The Jolly Cowboy 3 min 98 The Convict 2 min 99 Jack O' Diamonds 3 min 100 The Cowboy's Meditation 2 min 101 Billy Venero 4 min 102 Dogie Song 1 min 103 The Boozer 1 min 104 Drinking Song 1 min 105 A Fragment 1 min 106 A Man Named Hods 3 min 107 A Fragment 1 min 108 The Lone Star Trail 4 min 109 Way Down In Mexico 1 min 110 Rattlesnake A Ranch Haying Song 2 min 111 The Railroad Corral 2 min 112 The Song of the "Metis" Trapper 2 min 113 The Camp Fire Has Gone Out 2 min 114 Night-Herding Song 2 min 115 Tail Piece 1 min 116 The Habit 2 min 117 Old Paint 2 min 118 Down South on the Rio Grande 1 min 119 Silver Jack 3 min 120 The Cowboy's Christmas Ball 6 min 121 Pinto 2 min 122 The Gal I Left Behind Me 2 min 123 Billy The Kid 1 min 124 The Hell-Bound Train 3 min 125 The Old Scout's Lament 2 min 126 The Deserted Adobe 2 min 127 The Cowboy at Work 2 min 128 Here's to the Ranger! 2 min 129 Muster Out the Ranger 2 min 130 A Cow Camp on the Range 2 min 131 Freckles. A Fragment 2 min 132 Whose Old Cow? 3 min 133 Old Time Cowboy 2 min 134 Bucking Broncho 2 min 135 The Pecos Queen 1 min 136 Chopo 1 min 137 Top Hand 2 min 138 California Trail 2 min 139 Bronc Peeler's Song 1 min 140 A Deer Hunt 2 min 141 Windy Bill 2 min 142 Wild Rovers 2 min 143 Life in a Half-Breed Shack 2 min 144 The Road to Cook's Peak 3 min 145 Araphoe, Or Buckskin Joe 3 min 146 Rounded up in Glory 1 min 147 The Drunkard's Hell 2 min 148 Rambling Boy 2 min 149 Brigham Young. I 2 min 150 Brigham Young. II 2 min 151 The Old Gray Mule 1 min 152 The Fools of Forty-nine 2 min 153 A Ripping Trip 1 min 154 The Happy Miner 2 min 155 The California Stage Company 1 min 156 New National Anthem 1 min
