Drinking Song

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

by John LOMAX (1867 - 1948)

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" is his collection that propelled him to the forefront of his field and ignited new interest in American folklore, inspiring many to continue research. For his contributions to the field of cowboy music, Locas was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Many of the verses here are accompanied by musical scores, and some may be more familiar in their musical form such as "A Home on the Range." A wide array of characters and life across the western United States is represented here. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Listen next episodes of Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads:
A Fragment , The Old Scout's Lament , A Cow Camp on the Range , A Deer Hunt , A Fragment , A Man Named Hods , A Ripping Trip , Araphoe, Or Buckskin Joe , Billy The Kid , Brigham Young. I. , Brigham Young. II , Bronc Peeler's Song , Bucking Broncho , California Trail , Chopo , Down South on the Rio Grande , Freckles. A Fragment , Here's to the Ranger! , Life in a Half-Breed Shack , Muster Out the Ranger , New National Anthem , Night-Herding Song , Old Paint , Old Time Cowboy , Pinto , Rambling Boy , Rattlesnake A Ranch Haying Song , Rounded up in Glory , Silver Jack , Tail Piece , The California Stage Company , The Camp Fire Has Gone Out , The Cowboy at Work , The Cowboy's Christmas Ball , The Deserted Adobe , The Drunkard's Hell , The Fools of Forty-nine , The Gal I Left Behind Me , The Habit , The Happy Miner , The Hell-Bound Train , The Lone Star Trail , The Old Gray Mule , The Pecos Queen , The Railroad Corral , The Road to Cook's Peak , The Song of the "Metis" Trapper , Top Hand , Way Down In Mexico , Whose Old Cow? , Wild Rovers , Windy Bill