[01.50.000.]'Play the dead march as you carry me along.“
[00:11.000]As I walked out on the streets of Laredo.
[00:16.000]As I walked out on Laredo one day,
[00:22.000]I spied a poor cowboy wrapped in white linen,
[00:26.000]]Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay.
[00:34.000]'I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy.'’ “
[00:40.000]These words he did say as I boldly walked by.
[00:45.000]'Come an' sit down beside me an' hear my sad story.“
[00:51.000]'I'm shot in the breast an' I know I must die.'“
[01:00.000]'It was once in the saddle, I used to go dashing.“
[01:07.000]'Once in the saddle, I used to go gay.“
[01:02.000]'First to the card-house and then down to Rose's.“
[01:17.000]'But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dying today.'“
[01:24.000]'Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin.“
[01:30.000]'Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall.“
[01:35.000]'Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin.“
[01:40.000]'Roses to deaden the clods as they fall.'“
[01:47.000]'Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly.“
[01:58.000]'Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me,“
[02:04.000]'I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.'“
[02:13.000]'Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother,“
[02:18.000]'An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone.“
[02:24.000]'But please not one word of the man who had killed me.“
[02:29.000]'Don't mention his name and his name will pass on.“
[02:38.000]When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting.
[02:44.000]The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay.
[02:49.000]We took the young cowboy down to the green valley,
[02:55.000]And there stands his marker, we made, to this day.
[03:01.000]We beat the drum slowly and played the Fife lowly,
[03:04.000]Played the dead march as we carried him along.
[03:11.000]Down in the green valley, laid the sod o'er him.
[03:17.000]He was a young cowboy and he said he'd done wrong.