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dys ------ that's the man, your turn

streets of el paso
st james infirmary blues
gamblers blues
connection?

Well I give.

dys, St. James Infirmary was Cab Calloway.

Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary,
See my baby there;
She's stretched out on a long, white table,
She's so sweet, so cold, so fair.

Let her go, let her go, God bless her,
Wherever she may be,
She will search this wide world over,
But she'll never find another sweet man like me.

Now, when I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches,
Put on a box-back coat and a stetson hat,
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain,
So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat.

Hi..hi.de..hi de hi...

Folks, now that you have heard my story,
Say, boy, hand me another shot of that booze;
If anyone should ask you,
Tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary blues.



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um well i done bad
twas Streets of Laredo i was thinking of; anyway all 3 are the same tune and derived from an old Irish ballad "A handful of Laurel" and anther tune called "Cowboys Lament" along with "Gamblers Blues"
"As I walked out in the Streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day,
I spied a young cowboy, all wrapped in white linen
wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay.

I see by your outfit, that you are a cowboy,
These words he did say as I slowly walked by.
Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story,
For I'm shot in the breast, and I'm dying today.

Twas once in the saddle I used to go dashing,
Twas once in the saddle I used to go gay.
First to the dram-house, and then to the card-house,
Got shot in the breast, and I'm dying today.

Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
And play the dead march as you carry me along;
Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod oer me,
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.

Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin,
Get six pretty maidens to bear up my pall.
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin,
Roses to deaden the sods as they fall.

Then swing your rope slowly and rattle yours purs lowly,
And give a wild whoop as you carry me along;
And in the grave throw me and roll the sod o'er me.
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.

Go bring me a cup, a cup of cold water.
To cool my parched lips, the cowboy then said.
Before I returned, his soul had departed,
And gone to the round up - the cowboy was dead.

We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
And bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade, so brave, young and handsome,
We all loved our comrade, although he'd done wrong

Now that's a song.

Dys, I had no idea that The Cowboy's lament came from an old Irish ballad. Which only reaffirms my notion that the only pure American music is Jazz.

Man, so many Irish ballads have been turned into popular country and folk songs over here in Canada and in America....

Couldn't find a question to answer, but while on the topic, who wrote the very popular in Ireland and elsewhere "Sonny's Dream," and what was the story behind it?

Another popular Irish song based on the same lyrics as the Cowboy's Lament, etc. was "No Man's Land", or also "Willie McBride":

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly,
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sound the last post in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'?

Beautiful anti-war song popularized by Makem and Clancy.

Hey,cav. Fascinating. When I taught, we reviewed a film that claimed the mountain fiddle was an attempt to imitate bagpipes carried over from the first wave of immigration to the U.S. So, the same could be said for the music of the mountains. Sorry that I failed to ask a question, and here it is:

What American writer and journalist coined the phrase: Fanatical chic?

Tom Wolfe?

dys, you smart thing.

Your turn then.

While we're waiting for Dys, let me sneak this in, it's so juicy:

...What do the following songs, have in common? "Think", This is Dedicated", "Tell the Truth"?
...Or you can just tell me the original artists that recorded them.

I'm thinking, Boo. All I can come up with is dedicated to the one I love.

Hey Letty,
...You did say the title correctly....a clue can be found in a post I made earlier today on another topic.

ok...off to find it.

Boo, Did the Shirilles do all three?

Okay, I'll take you off the hook. No one ever gets it. Although most people associate the songs with James Brown, The Shirelles, and Ray Charles, respectively, they were all actually written and originally recorded by the 5 Royales. ("Don't Do It") The clue was ,in the "What are you listening to " topic. I mentioned their CD earlier today. I wonder of OAK would have gotten it?

Booman, I looked at that question when it first came up and I thought , hang on, this one needs serious thought. Then I went to sleep instead.
I'd never of made the 5 Royales.

You're a clever bloke Booman

St Louis Blues,, the song

who wrote it

name a female singer who recorded it in 1925

name a male singer who recorded it in 1930