This item is part of the I. G. Greer Folksong Collection which consists of more than 300 individual song titles and their variants as collected by Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967) from informants, primarily in Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties. The collection includes manuscripts, typescript transcriptions produced by Dr. Greer’s clerical staff, and handwritten musical notations. Songs range from traditional Child Ballads, traditional English and Scottish ballads as well as their American variants, to 19th century popular music to musical compositions of local origin.
Tags: A Dying Cowboy, American cowboys, ballads, Cow Boy, songs and music death, songs and music gamblers, songs and music gunshot wounds, The Cowboy, The Cowboy's Lament, The Dying Cow Boy, The Dying Cowboy, The Unfortunate Lad, The Wild Cowboy, The Wounded Cowboy, Unfortunate Rake; lyric variant 2
