Streets Of Laredo-Joan Baez

[00:05.99]As I walked out on the streets of Laredo. [00:13.12]As I walked out on Laredo one day, [00:19.45]I spied a poor cowboy wrapped in white linen, [00:26.07]Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay. [00:32.48]"I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy." [00:39.11]These words he did say as I boldly walked by. [00:45.31]"Come an' sit down beside me an' hear my sad story. [00:52.26]"I'm shot in the breast an' I know I must die." [00:58.75]"It was once in the saddle, I used to go dashing. [01:05.15]"Once in the saddle, I used to go gay. [01:11.77]"First to the card-house and then down to Rose's. [01:18.23]"But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dying today." [01:25.04]"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin. [01:31.78]"Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall. [01:38.27]"Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin. [01:44.82]"Roses to deaden the clods as they fall." [01:51.36]"Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly. [01:57.99]"Play the dead march as you carry me along. [02:04.42]"Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me, [02:11.13]"I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong." [02:17.65]"Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother, [02:24.23]"An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone. [02:30.73]"But please not one word of the man who had killed me. [02:37.40]"Don't mention his name and his name will pass on." [02:43.68]When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting. [02:50.31]The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay. [02:56.88]We took the young cowboy down to the green valley, [03:03.49]And there stands his marker, we made, to this day. [03:10.02]We beat the drum slowly and played the Fife lowly, [03:16.63]Played the dead march as we carried him along. [03:23.09]Down in the green valley, laid the sod o'er him. [03:29.69]He was a young cowboy and he said he'd done wrong