Cowboy Songs Cowboy history in song and narration.
Sung by Keith & Rusty McNeil
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Part One: The Beginnings
Columbus brings cattle and horses to America, cattle ranches spread throughout Mexico, to California and to South Texas. Herds multiply during the Civil War. Post-war ranches grow in number and size. Confederate Civil War veterans, adventurers, Mexicans, African-Americans and Indians become the cowboys who work the cattle.
Play Album 46:32
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Goodbye Old Paint
El Alabado
La Paloma
El Rancho Grande
La Sandunga
Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
The Cyclone Blues
The Farrows
Diamond Joe
What Was Your Name In The States?
The Lakes Of Ponchartrain
On The Lakes Of The Poncho Plains
A Grant
A Prisoner For Life
Part Two: Cowboy Life
American cowboys inherit the tools of the their trade from Mexico. They become expert riders, ropers and horse trainers. They face dangers, long hours and loneliness. They express pride in their occupation, and sing of brave deeds and lost loves
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The Strawberry Roan
Blood On The Saddle
The Zebra Dun
Miss Aledo
Windy Bill
The Texas Idol
The Dreary, Dreary Life
The Wild Rippling Water
The Fair Lady Of The Plains
Utah Carl
Cowboy Jack
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball
Part Three: From Texas to Kansas
Trail drives from South Texas to the Kansas railheads begin. Wide open cow towns beckon at the end of the trail. Cowboys sing of their adventures and of a better life in the hereafter.
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Home On The Range
I'd Like To Be In Texas When They Round Up In The Spring
Juan Murray
The Cowboy's Heaven
The Railroad Corral
Bury Me Out On The Prairie
The Cowboy
John Garner's Trail Herd
The Old Chisholm Trail
El Corrido De Kiansis
Doney Gal
When You And I Were Young, Maggie
Part Four: On the Trail
Cowboys drive huge herds of cattle to Kansas, Montana and Wyoming, experiencing burning sun, driving rain, freezing snow, lightning strikes, swollen rivers, dry water holes, dust, dangerous and often fatal stampedes. The chuck wagon is the social center, the wrangler tends the horses. Night riders sing to the cattle. Settlers, homesteaders and fences end the era.
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The Streets Of Laredo
The Old Man Rockin' The Cradle, Get Along Little Dogies
Little Joe The Wrangler
Punchin' Dough
Hell In Texas
When The Work's All Done This Fall
Night Herding Song
The Colorado Trail
Jim The Roper
Montana
I'm Going To Leave Old Texas Now
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