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The Streets Of Laredo
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Trditional. Berühmte Cowboy-Ballade.
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Eclecticist in the positive sense, in broadest terms between Classical Music, Blues, Country, Folk, Rock, transforming himself into the entire variation of styl
JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) started at the tender age of ten with a dust-ridden 'beater' Harmony six-string acoustic dreadnought passed down from his father. While growing up in South Germany he first cut his teeth every evening around sundown while playing for his family. Later, he played in a band, hit the local scene and studied classical guitar with Victor von Hasselmann and Anton Stingl. Eclecticist in the positive sense, in broadest terms between Classical Music, Blues, Country, Folk, Rock, transforming himself into the entire variation of styles, with elements of Jazz, without fear of venturing into Pop, for the past five years, JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) has been performing with his group The Black Djemba. The band has enjoyed playing to their ever-increasing following in the Southern Germany Area and has gotten favourable reviews. Their material seems to be ever changing and hard to pin down categorically. What always remains the same is the unique and wide-ranging musical personality of JS (Joerg Sommermeyer). Besides Joerg Sommermeyer is the author of the antinovel , "Pat[(h) o/a] physischer Antiroman, Tragigroteskenfragment”, published in December 2008.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
#4,136 in subgenre Peak #9
Charts
Peak #134
Author
Traditional, arr. Joerg Sommermeyer
Rights
Traditional, arr. Joerg Sommermeyer
Uploaded
February 17, 2004
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MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 3:27
Story behind the song
Berühmte Cowboy-Ballade. In der Rom-Episode des Jarmusch Films " Night On Earth" setzt sie der Taxifahrer Roberto Begnini vor sich hin trällernd wirkungsvoll in Szene. "The Streets of Laredo" ist mit Interpreten verbunden wie z. Bsp. Jim Reeves, Willie Nelson, Tom Jones, Arlo Guthrie, Duane Eddy, Johnny Cash, John Cale, Joan Baez, Gene Autry und Chet Atkins. Der Evergreen gehört zur umfangreichen, besonders in Amerika immer beliebten Gattung von berufsbezogenen Balladen. Es gibt ihn nicht nur als Cowboy-Song, sondern auch in Holzfäller- und Soldatenversionen.
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Streets of Laredo by Francis Henry Maynard (1876) As I walked out in the streets of Laredo, As I walked out in Laredo one day, I spied a young cowboy wrapped up in white linen, Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay. " Oh beat the drums slowly and play the fife lowly; Sing the Death March as you carry me along. Take me to the valley, there lay the sod o'er me, I'm a young cowboy and know I´ve done wrong." " I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy." These words he did say as I boldly walked by. " Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story; Got shot in the breast and I know I must die!" "My friends and relations they live in the Nation: They know not where their dear boy has gone. I first came to Texas and hired to a ranchman, O I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong." "It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing: It was once in the saddle I used to go gay. First to the dram house and then to the card house, Got shot in the breast and I'm dying today." "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, Put roses to deaden the cods as they fall." "Go gather around you a group of young cowboys, And tell them the story of this my sad fate. Tell one and the other before they go further, To stop their wild roving before it's too late." "Go fetch me some water, a cool cup of water To cool my parched lips," then the poor cowboy said. Before I returned his spirit had left him Had gone to his Maker, the cowboy was dead. We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly, And bitterly wept as we bore him along. For awe all loved our comrade, so brave, young, and handsome, We all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong.
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