Cowboys Lament

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As I walked out in the streets of
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 Laredo
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As I walked out in Laredo one day
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I spied a young cowboy all 
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wrapped in white linen
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Wrapped in white linen as cold as
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 the clay


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I see by your outfit that you are
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 a cowboy
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These words he did say as I 
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boldly walked by
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Come sit down beside me and hear 
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my sad story
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I'm shot in the breast and I know
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 I must die


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It was once in the saddle I used 
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to go dashing
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Once in the saddle I used to go gay
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First down to Rosie's and then to
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 the card house
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Got shot in the breast and I'm 
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dying today


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Get sixteen gamblers to handle my 
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coffin
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Get six jolly cowboys to sing me 
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a song
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Take me to the graveyard and lay 
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the sod o'er me
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For I'm a young cowboy and know 
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I've done wrong


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Get six jolly cowboys to carry my 
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coffin
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Get six pretty maidens to sing me
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 a song
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Take me to the valley and lay the
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 sod o'er me
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For I'm a young cowboy and know 
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I've done wrong


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Oh beat the drum slowly and play 
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the fife lowly
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Play the Dead March as they carry
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 me along
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Put bunches of roses all over my 
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coffin
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Roses to deaden the clods as they 
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fall


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As I walked out in the streets of
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 Laredo
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As I walked out in Laredo one day
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I spied a young cowboy all 
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wrapped in white linen
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Wrapped in white linen as cold as
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 the clay