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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
Windows Media


Play selections
Windows Media Goodbye Old Paint (2:44)
Windows Media El Alabado (1:44)
Windows Media La Paloma (3:58)
Windows Media El Rancho Grande (3:18)
Windows Media La Sandunga (2:41)
Windows Media Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (4:18)
Windows Media The Cyclone Blues (2:33)
Windows Media The Farrows (2:58)
Windows Media Diamond Joe (3:24)
Windows Media What Was Your Name In The States? (0:56)
Windows Media The Lakes Of Ponchartrain (7:29)
Windows Media On The Lakes Of The Poncho Plains (3:31) (entro repeated from above)
Windows Media A Grant (3:05)
Windows Media A Prisoner For Life (4:19)

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

Play Album 45:36
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Windows Media The Strawberry Roan (4:55)
Windows Media Blood On The Saddle (2:13)
Windows Media The Zebra Dun (4:31)
Windows Media Miss Aledo (2:52)
Windows Media Windy Bill (4:31)
Windows Media The Texas Idol (1:27)
Windows Media The Dreary, Dreary Life (3:27)
Windows Media The Wild Rippling Water (3:42)
Windows Media The Fair Lady Of The Plains (3:18)
Windows Media Utah Carl (6:01)
Windows Media Cowboy Jack (4:05)
Windows Media The Cowboy's Christmas Ball (4:31)

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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Windows Media Home On The Range (2:43)
Windows Media I'd Like To Be In Texas When They Round Up In The Spring (3:23)
Windows Media Juan Murray (3:13)
Windows Media The Cowboy's Heaven (4:29)
Windows Media The Railroad Corral (4:26)
Windows Media Bury Me Out On The Prairie (5:05)
Windows Media The Cowboy (2:11)
Windows Media John Garner's Trail Herd (4:48)
Windows Media The Old Chisholm Trail (3:06)
Windows Media El Corrido De Kiansis (3:55)
Windows Media Doney Gal (4:07)
Windows Media When You And I Were Young, Maggie (3:45)

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.

Play Album 43:14
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Play selections
Windows Media The Streets Of Laredo (3:56)
Windows Media The Old Man Rockin' The Cradle, Get Along Little Dogies (6:23)
Windows Media Little Joe The Wrangler (4:45)
Windows Media Punchin' Dough (4:28)
Windows Media Hell In Texas (5:41)
Windows Media When The Work's All Done This Fall (4:41)
Windows Media Night Herding Song (2:08)
Windows Media The Colorado Trail (1:58)
Windows Media Jim The Roper (3:01)
Windows Media Montana (2:07)
Windows Media I'm Going To Leave Old Texas Now (3:23)


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