As I walked out in Lar-edo one day.
VERSE ONE
As I walked out in the streets of Lar-edo,
as I walked out in Lar-edo one day.
I spied a young cowboy wrapped all in white linen.
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay.
Oh beat the drums slowly..and play the pipe lowly
Sing the dead march..as you carry me along
Take me to the valley there lay the sod o?re me
I?m a young cowboy and know I?ve done wrong
VERSE TWO
I see by your outfit..that you are a cowboy.
These words he did say as I boldly walked by
Come sit down be-side me and hear my sad story
Got shot in the breast and I know I must die.
VERSE THREE
To cool my parched lips then the poor cowboy said
before I re-turned his sprit had left him
had gone to his maker, the cowboy was dead.
CHORUS REPEAT
Oh beat the drums slowly..and play the pipe lowly
Sing the dead march..as you carry me along
Take me to the valley there lay the sod o?re me
I?m a young cowboy and know I?ve done wrong
