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'Play the dead march as you carry me along.“ |
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As I walked out on the streets of Laredo. |
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As I walked out on Laredo one day, |
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I spied a poor cowboy wrapped in white linen, |
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Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay. |
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'I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy.'’ “ |
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These words he did say as I boldly walked by. |
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'Come an' sit down beside me an' hear my sad story.“ |
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'I'm shot in the breast an' I know I must die.'“ |
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'It was once in the saddle, I used to go dashing.“ |
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'Once in the saddle, I used to go gay.“ |
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'First to the card-house and then down to Rose's.“ |
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'But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dying today.'“ |
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'Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin.“ |
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'Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall.“ |
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'Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin.“ |
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'Roses to deaden the clods as they fall.'“ |
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'Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly.“ |
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'Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me,“ |
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'I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.'“ |
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'Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother,“ |
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'An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone.“ |
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'But please not one word of the man who had killed me.“ |
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'Don't mention his name and his name will pass on.“ |
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When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting. |
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The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay. |
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We took the young cowboy down to the green valley, |
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And there stands his marker, we made, to this day. |
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We beat the drum slowly and played the Fife lowly, |
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Played the dead march as we carried him along. |
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Down in the green valley, laid the sod o'er him. |
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He was a young cowboy and he said he'd done wrong. |