Annotation:I Am the Bravest Cowboy
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I AM THE BRAVEST COWBOY. AKA - "Bravest Cowboy." American, Song and Reel. USA, western N.C. Jenkins, Cockerham & Jarrell sang:
I am the bravest cowboy,
That ever trod the West;
I've been all over the Rockies,
Got bullets in my breast.
In eighteen hundred and sixty-three
I joined the immigrant band;
We marched from San Antonio
Down by the Rio Grande.
I saw the Indians coming,
We heard them give their yell;
My feeling at the moment,
No tongue could ever tell.
I went out on the prairie,
I learned to sow the line;
I learned to pocket money,
But I did not dress much fine.
I rambled on back to Texas,
I learned to rob and steal;
It's when I robbed that cowboy,
How happy I did feel.
I wore a wide-brimmed white hat,
My saddle too was fine;
And when I courted a pretty girl,
You bet I called her mine.
I courted her for beauty,
For love it was in vain;
Till they carried me down to Dallas,
To wear a ball and chain.
The third verse was supplied by Julia Lyons, Toast, western North Carolina, the sister of fiddler Tommy Jarrell.
