Into: G      
G        C        7         b  
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo  
C         7    b       7    
As I walked out on Laredo on day  
G           C       D7             Db    
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen  
C              7     Db        G  
All wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay  
  
                                       Strum each chord twice  
G*  
Beat the drums slowly  
C*  
Play the fife lowly  
D7*                    Db*  
Play the Dead March as you carry me along  
G*  
Take me to the Green Valley  
C*  
Lay the sod 'ore me  
D7          Db         D7            G  
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong  
  
(Spoken)  
Then go write a letter and send it to my gray-haired mother  
And please send the same to my sister so dear  
But please not one word of all this would you mention  
When others should ask for my story to hear  
  
(Sung)  
There is another more dear than a sister  
She'll bitterly weep when she hears that I'm gone  
And if some other man ever wins her affection  
Don't mention my name and my name will pass on  
  
Just beat the drums slowly  
Play the fife lowly  
Play the Dead March as you carry me along  
Take me to Green Valley  
Lay the sod 'ore me  
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong  
  
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   
Roses to deaden the clots when they fall  
  
We beat the drums slowly  
Played the fife lowly  
We bitterly wept as we bore him along  
Down in the Green Valley  
We laid the sod 'ore him   
Just a young cowboy who'd surely gone wrong