{"id":9169,"date":"2021-03-01T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T11:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2021-03-01T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T11:14:58","slug":"the-cowboys-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9169","title":{"rendered":"The Cowboy&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/leadingpony.gif\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Cowboys_Dream.mp3\"><br \/>\nThe Cowboy&#8217;s Dream &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>My friend Bill Lee recently said, &#8220;You haven&#8217;t done a cowboy song for the Folk Den in a long time. So here&#8217;s one:<\/p>\n<p>Most people think &#8220;Cowboy&#8217;s Dream&#8221; is a traditional song by an anonymous author. I did some digging and found this from John White,\u2028 Westfield, NJ,\u2028 May, 1934:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many poets have written of the cowboy. Only a few have seen their poems become a part of the folklore that has grown up around American frontier history. D. J. O&#8217;Malley has been accorded that distinction. He wrote a few verses for a poem called: &#8220;Sweet By-And-By Revised.&#8221; Mr. O&#8217;Malley recalls that &#8220;Sweet By-and-By Revised&#8221; was one of his earliest attempts at verse making. He believes it probably was the third or fourth poem of the forty or more that he wrote while following the cowpuncher&#8217;s trade. The original, which he says appeared in the Stock Growers&#8217; Journal during the middle 1880&#8217;s, is a rather crude set of verses, only five in number. These apparently furnished the foundation for the ballad often called &#8220;The Cowboy&#8217;s Dream&#8221;, which was completed by Will C. Barnes and has been given a place in nearly every collection of American frontier songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It has been traditionally sung to the tunes of &#8220;My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean&#8221; and &#8220;Red River Valley.&#8221; I decided to use &#8220;My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean&#8221; because the tune rolls like the sea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n[A] Last night as I [D] lay on the [A] prairie<br \/>\nAnd looked at the [B7] stars in the [D] sky,<br \/>\n[A] I wondered if [D] ever a [A] cowboy<br \/>\nWould [D] drift to the sweet [A] by and by.<\/p>\n<p>The road to that broad happy region<br \/>\nIs a dim narrow trail so they say;<br \/>\nBut the bright one that leads to perdition<br \/>\nIs posted and blazed all the way.<\/p>\n<p>CH: [A] Roll on, [D] Roll on,<br \/>\n[E] Roll on, little dogies, [A] Roll on, Roll on,<br \/>\n[A] Roll on, [D] Roll on,<br \/>\n[E] Roll on, little dogies, [A] Roll on,<\/p>\n<p>They say there will be a great round-up,<br \/>\nAnd cowboys, like dogies will stand,<br \/>\nTo be marked by the riders of judgment<br \/>\nWho are posted and know every brand.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m scared that I&#8217;ll be a stray yearling<br \/>\nA maverick unbranded on high;<br \/>\nAnd get cut from the bunch with the rustlers<br \/>\nWhen the Boss of the riders goes by.<br \/>\nCH:<br \/>\nFor they tell of another big owner<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s ne&#8217;er overstocked, so they say,<br \/>\nBut who always makes room for the sinner<br \/>\nWho drifts from the straight narrow way.<\/p>\n<p>They say he will never forget you<br \/>\nThat he knows every action and look;<br \/>\nSo, for safety, you&#8217;d better get branded<br \/>\nHave your name in the great Tally book.<br \/>\nCH:X2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Cowboy&#8217;s Dream &#8211; Click To Play My friend Bill Lee recently said, &#8220;You haven&#8217;t done a cowboy song for the Folk Den in a long time. So here&#8217;s one: Most people think &#8220;Cowboy&#8217;s Dream&#8221; is a traditional song by an anonymous author. I did some digging and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cowboy&#8217;s Dream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions\/9205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}