Streets Of Laredo

As I walked out in the streets of Laredo as I walked out in Laredo one day



I spied a young cowboy wrapped up in white linnen



Wrapped up in white linnen as cold as the clay



I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy



These words he did say as a police stepped by



Come side down beside me and hear my sad story



I'm shot in the chest and I know I must die



It was once in the saddle I used to go dashin'



It was once in the saddle I used to go gay



First to the drumhouse and then to the courthouse



Got shot in the chest and I'm dying today



Oh beat the drum slowly play the fife lowly play the dead march as you carry me along



Take me to the green valley there lay the sod o'er me



For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong



Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin get six pretty maidens to bear up my pall



Put bunches of roses all over my coffin but roses to deaden the sod as they fall



Then swing your ropes slowly and raddle your spurs lowly



And give a wild yell as you carry me along



And in the grave throw me and rove the sod o'er me



For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong



Go bring me some water a cup of cold water



To cool my parched lips the cowboy then said



Before I return his soul had departed and gone to the roundup the cowpoke was dead



We beat the drum slowly we play the fife lowly we bitterly weep as we carry him along



We take him to the green valley there lay the sod o'er him



Just the young cowboy that surely done wrong