Lyrics for the Song Streets of Laredo

[Verse 1]
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a young cowboy, wrapped all in white linen
Wrapped in white linen, as cold as the clay

[Verse 2]
“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”

History of the Song Streets of Laredo

“Streets of Laredo,” aka “The Dying Cowboy”! This timeless American cowboy ballad truly captures the spirit of the West. it’s recognized as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time by the Western Writers of America – Facebook Stone Cold

Marty Robbins Recorded Streets of Laredo. The Release Date was 1960.

“Streets of Laredo” (Laws B01, Roud 23650),^[1] also known as “The Dying Cowboy“, is an American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America listed it as number four of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.^[2]

Derived from the traditional folk song “The Unfortunate Rake“, the song has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted numerous times, with many variations. The title refers to the city of Laredo, Texas.

The old-time cowboy Frank H. Maynard (1853–1926) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, claimed authorship of his self-published song in 1911 “The Dying Cowboy”. Cowboys up and down the trail revised The Cowboy’s Lament, and in his memoir, Maynard alleged that cowboys from Texas changed the title to “The Streets of Laredo” after he claimed authorship of the song in a 1924 interview with journalism professor Elmo Scott Watson, then on the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.^[3] Wikipedia