Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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As I walked
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out on the streets of
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As I walked out in
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Laredo one day,
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I spied a young cowboy,
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all wrapped in white linen
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Wrapped in white linen, as cold as the clay
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Kind friend,
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will you lend me an ear for the hearing
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His voice whispered softly,
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the words drew me nigh
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Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story
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I'm done in the press and I know I must die
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Oh, once in the saddle
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I used to go dashing
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Runnin' and sportin'
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the cowboy did say
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And sadly I'm seein' it all pass away
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So beat the drum slowly
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and play the fife lowly
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Santa did march as you
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carry me along
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And lay my head down in
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the sod of the prairie
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For I'm a young cowboy and oh,
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Find a brace of white horses
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for pullin' my coffin
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Find six lonely riders for bearin' my paw
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Send the ladies that pleas
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ure to walkin' behind me
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A -weepin' and wailin'
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be moldin' my fall
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sweet smellin' blossoms
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Fresh -picked of the prairies,
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I no more shall roam
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And the psalm of the shepherd
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reads softly above me
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Just say on my marker,
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this cowboy's gone home
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And wet his cold lips as
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I grinned his head
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With a sigh and a shudder,
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his soul then departed
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Laredo, the cowboy played dead
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So they beat the drums slowly
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And sounded death's march
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as they carried him home
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The cowboy he's gone from
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the shadowy valley
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Back for green pastures forever to roam
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