(Traditional)



As I walked out in the streets of Laredo

As I walked out in Laredo one day

I spied a young cowboy wrapped in white linen

Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay.



Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly

Play the dead march as you carry me along

Take me to the green valleys lay the sod o'er me

For I'm a young cowboy I know I've done wrong.



Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly

Play the death march as you carry me along

For we all loved our comrade so brave young and handsome

Well, all loved our comrade although he done wrong.



There is another more dear than a sister

She'll bitterly weep when she hears that I'm gone

And if some other man every wins her affection

Don't mention my name and my name will move on.



Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin

Get six pretty maidens to sing me a song

Put bunches of roses all over my coffin

Roses to deaden the clods when they fall.



--- Instrumental ---



And beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly

Play the death march as you carry me along

For we all loved our comrade so brave young and handsome

Well, all loved our comrade although he done wrong...