[ti:Streets Of Laredo] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:American IV: The Man Comes Aro] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.29]As I walked out on the streets of Laredo [00:16.97]As I walked out on Laredo one day [00:22.34]I spied a poor cowboy wrapped in white linen [00:28.09]Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay [00:33.89]"I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy" [00:40.57]These words he did say as I boldly walked by [00:46.14]"Come an' sit down beside me an' hear my sad story [00:51.68]"I'm shot in the breast an' I know I must die" [01:01.10]"It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing [01:07.05]"Once in the saddle I used to go gay [01:12.18]"First to the card-house and then down to Rose's [01:17.67]"But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dying today" [01:24.41]"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin [01:29.92]"Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall [01:35.28]"Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin [01:40.77]"Roses to deaden the clods as they fall" [01:47.68]"Then beat the drum slowly play the Fife lowly [01:53.45]"Play the dead march as you carry me along [01:58.57]"Take me to the green valley lay the sod o'er me [02:04.07]"I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong" [02:13.49]"Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother [02:18.97]"An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone [02:24.15]"But please not one word of the man who had killed me [02:29.64]"Don't mention his name and his name will pass on" [02:39.17]When thus he had spoken the hot sun was setting [02:44.40]The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay [02:49.73]We took the young cowboy down to the green valley [02:55.27]And there stands his marker we made to this day [03:01.84]We beat the drum slowly and played the Fife lowly [03:07.38]Played the dead march as we carried him along [03:12.32]Down in the green valley laid the sod o'er him [03:17.94]He was a young cowboy and he said he'd done wrong