What is a cowboy song?

Cowboy Song refers to a song or cowboys or both. As a subgroup of folk songs Origins is the cowboy song in second place only to the spiritual and songs of the native Americans.

Cowboy song was classified into two types. The first type is a song that is created and handed over by the oral word in the oral tradition. The second type of cowboy song is the adaptation of found words with a well -known melody that creates a new song in this process. For the first time many songs that are now one of the most famous genres.

Among the most popular cowboy songs are these seven. "Old Chisholm Trail" is an unofficial cowboy song, each Stanza describes in detail the typical rise and falls of the altitude of the cowboy. "Git along Little Doges" has no UPS: only falls. It is an episodic complaint about life on the trail.

"cowboy lament", in some versions called "Dying Cowboy" is the story of a young cowboys that knows "madePoorly ”, framed by a cowboy narrator of the story, which considers him fatally wounded and sees his funeral. "I am A-LEAVIN Cheyenne," also known as "Old Paint", he says about the cowboys leaving Cheyenne, heading to Montana.

Some examples of cowboy songs that tell the story are the biographies of Outlaws. One of them is "Billy The Kid", who outlines the fall of Billy's child in the hands of Sheriff Pat Garrett. "Jesse James," focuses at the end of the life of one of the famous James Brothers, who was in the 2007 film, the immortal assassination of Jesse James Odcward Robert Ford .