 | 1910 - 432 pages
...pallet, 111 lay on the floor. Still another gives us a glimpse of the sad ending of many a rough rider. It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing; It...house — Got shot in the breast, I'm dying to-day. At times his songs treat of one in the grip of the law : And you have your liberty Pray keep it if... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1911 - 908 pages
...ease I rope a streak of lightning and ride it where 1 please. The sad ending of many a rough rider i: depicted in the following: It was once in the saddle...regarded "as a deeply religious person. He himself say?: "On the plains we scarcely know a Sunda) from a Monday." He, however, sings of .God in the familiar... | |
 | American fiction - 1911 - 534 pages
...pallet, I'll lay on the floor. Still another gives us a glimpse of the sad ending of many a rough rider : It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing ; It...house — Got shot in the breast, I'm dying to-day. At times his songs treat of one in the grip of the law : And you have your liberty Pray keep it if... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1917 - 356 pages
...but the songs of a lyric character, such as The Cowboy's Lament, with its naive death-bed repentance, It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing, It was once in the saddle I used to be gay. First to the dram-house, then to the card-house, Got shot in the breast, I am dying today.... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1921 - 238 pages
...bear me along. And fire your guns right over my coffin; There goes' an unfortunate boy to bis home. " It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing, It was once in the saddle I used to be gay; First to the dram-house, then to the card-house : Got shot in the breast, I am dying to-day.... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1921 - 216 pages
...bear me along. And fire your guns right over my coffin; There goes an unfortunate boy to his home. " It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing, It was once in the saddle I used to be gay; First to the dram-house, then to the card-house: Got shot in the breast, I am dying to-day.... | |
 | Ballads - 1927 - 200 pages
...you go along. And fire your guns right over my coffin; There goes an unfortunate boy to his home." "It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing, It...once in the saddle I used to go gay ; First to the dram-house, then to the card-house, Got shot in the breast, I am dying to-day." "Get six jolly cowboys... | |
 | Roger L. Welsch - Fiction - 1966 - 420 pages
...along. And fire your guns right over my coffin; There goes an unfortunate boy to his home. (Chorus) "It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing, It...once in the saddle I used to go gay; First to the dram-house, then to the card-house, Got shot in the breast, I am dying today. (Chorus) "Get six jolly... | |
 | Richard W. Slatta - History - 1990 - 430 pages
...Lament" warned of the perils of gambling and drink: It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing, Once in the saddle I used to go gay; First to the...house, then to the card house, Got shot in the breast, I am dying today.28 Card playing concerned many ranchers and reformers in North and South America.... | |
 | Richard F. Selcer - History - 1991 - 388 pages
...could identify with the lament of "The Dying Cowboy," a song sung by drovers on the Chisholm Trail: It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing, It was once in the saddle I used to look gay; But then 1 took to drink and then to card playing. Got into a fight and now to my grave.... | |
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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, Put roses to deaden the sods as they fall. 
