Streets Of Laredo

(Tune is similar to an Irish Ballad called "A Handful of Laurel") 1. ()redo As () day I () linen All () cold as the () clay 2. I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy These words he did say as I calmly walked by Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story I'm shot in the breast and I know I must die 3. It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing With no one as quick on the trigger as I I sat in a card-game in back of a barroom Got shot in the back and today I must die 4. Get six of my buddies to carry my coffin And six pretty maidens to sing me a song Take me to the valley and lay the sod o er me For I m a young cowboy who played the game wrong 5. Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly And play the deaf march as they carry my pall Put bunches of roses all over my coffin The roses will deaden the clods as they fall 6. So gather around you a crowd of young cowboys And tell them the story of this my sad fate Tell one and the other before they go further To stop their wild roving before its too late 7. Go fetch me a cup, just a cup of cold water To cool my parched lips, the cowboy then said Before I returned, his brave spirit had left him And gone to his maker the cowboy was dead I cannot remember what verses were used by Mary Robbins so guess you can pick and choose. Have fun. Lee