I didn’t know Tex Ritter was an actor. Cool 👩🏻🏫👏🏻🥰‼️ I love cowboy (Western movies/TV Shows). I knew he was a singer and actor John Ritter’s father and that’s all.
As a kid I used ti listen to this with my dad who sadly passed away at a very young age Every time I hear this song it brings back so many good memories of my dad
Pauls Vids grieving a loss of a patient no matter how good or complicated the relationship takes a life time. It sounds as if your pointed in the right direction. My condolences.
Lost my dad when I was 14. He was already 62. He and Tax actually sang together or on the same radio show for a short time. Dad said he gave it up when he married -- saying he needed a real job.
One of my favourite songs,it's reminds me when Mr Harry Carey Jr sang it in John Ford's Three Godfathers movie.Marty Robbins and also country music singers sang it. It's a thrilling song. One of the best. God bless y'all and jeep it Country
Tex Ritter is my first cousin, several generations removed. When I was young, my schoolmates called me “Tex” and one that I still know, now in our 70s, still calls me Tex to this day. “The Streets of Laredo” is derived from the traditional English folk song, “The Unfortunate Rake,” as is the blues song “St. James Infirmary.” Fascinating how traditional songs change over time and place.
I GOT TO SEE THE PERFOREMANCE OF TEX AND HIS HORSE WHITE FLASH ON STAGE OF THE SMOOT THEATRE IN PARKERSBURG, WV. , THE YEAR WAS 1948, I WAS TEN YEARS OLD !
That's the way it is with old cowboy songs. Originally, the cowboys sang to the cattle and just threw in whatever words happened to come in mind. Later the movie cowboys did the same thing when they recorded them. It's the same with folk and mountain music.
@@sheilafletcher8124 Everything Jim Reeves does is great. He's one of my favorites although I don't think I ever heard his version of this song. I'll have to look it up.
Glenn Johnson Loved the old westerns and singers since growing up in the 50`s.Was in Fort Worth for the first time back in 2017 on a Phil Mack TV tour and it was just awesome.lifetime dream came true.Absolutely brilliant and many thanks for this upload.
I love Tex Ritter. Growing up, I used to play the very album you have pictured all the time. I grew up loving Cowboy music and still do. Thank you for posting!
Man I love this! First version I heard was Marty Robbins, who sings it superbly, next was Johnny (also great), then Burl Ives (also great, in a different way), but then this one really struck me. It's that deep resonant way Tex sings it. I like to sing, and trying to emulate Tex's style isn't easy, but it feels good, like a "warm vibratey feeling all through my gutty works" ("Clockwork Orange" movie quote). The only thing comparable would be "Sixteen Tons", by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Deep and powerful, and dripping with style and attitude. Awesome!
The song first appeared in 1910 and it's believed to have descended from an Irish folk song of the late 18th century called "The Unfortunate Rake" As I was a walking down by the “Lock”, As I was walking one morning of late, Who did I spy but my own dear comrade, Wrapp'd in flannel, so hard is his fate. Chorus. Had she but told me when she disordered me, Had she but told me of it at the time, I might have got salts and pills of white mercury, But now I'm cut down in the height of my prime. I boldly stepped up to him and kindly did ask him, Why he was wrapp'd in flannel so white? My body is injured and sadly disordered, All by a young woman, my own heart's delight. My father oft told me, and of[ten] times chided me, And said my wicked ways would never do, But I never minded him, nor ever heeded him, [I] always kept up in my wicked ways. Get six jolly fellows to carry my coffin, And six pretty maidens to bear up my pall, And give to each of them bunches of roses, That they may not smell me as they go along. [Over my coffin put handsful of lavender, Handsful of lavender on every side, Bunches of roses all over my coffin, Saying there goes a young man cut down in his prime.] Muffle your drums, play your pipes merrily, Play the death [dead] march as you go along. And fire your guns right over my coffin, There goes an unfortunate lad to his home.
Sun Set That sun still sets in the west But that old trail is asphalt now Baked by the sun hot and dry The sounds of hoofs have passed Herds of buffalo graze no more Barbwire strung along The fence post passed like a picket fence As the truck tires whine on The sweetgrass has all but gone The mesquite is tall and thick Prickly Pear covers the prairie The Longhorns have gone A saddle all covered in dust The moth-riddled blanket flaps Riding quirt amiss Old spurs hung on a wall On a post hangs a leather belt With a holster cracked and rotting That old hogleg turned brown Brass all green The lassoing cowboy is no more That broad hat tipped back His shirt sleeves rolled high Jeans rolled double His hair thinned and gray High cheekbones darken Bull hide tough Hand scars a many With eyes squinting A straw chair leaned back Daydreaming No more round ups That last ride was long ago With a rolled cigarette on his lip His words in a low key That sun still sets in the west Barry 4/3/2023
I like this version. Wasn't a big Tex Ritter fan as a little kid, but I remember some of his movies. I don't know which movie this film clip accompanying the song is from but the gunfight scene indicates the actors actually knew how to shoot handguns. Watch an episode of "Have Gun Will Travel" and you see Paladin 'throwing the bullets" - from draw thru fire his gun never stops moving! He could even miss the broad side of a barn that way.
What does Tex Ritter, George Jones, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, Clay Walker, The "Big Bopper" Janis Joplin, Johnny and Edger Winter, and Harry James all have in common? They all grew up within 30 miles of each other in Beaumont, Texas.
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo, As I walked out in Laredo one day, I spied a young cowboy wrapped up in white linen, Wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay. "I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy." These words he did say as I boldly stepped by. "Come sit down beside me, hear my sad story; Got shot in the breast and I know I must die!" "Oh beat the drums slowly, play the fife lowly; Play the Death March as you carry me along. Take me to the green valley, throw the sod o'er me, For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong." "Twas once in the saddle I used to go dashing: Twas once in the saddle I used to go gay. First got to drinking, then to card playing, Got shot in the breast and you see where I lay." "Go bring me a cup, a cup of cold water To cool my parched lips with,” the cowboy then said. Before I got to him, the spirit had left him And gone to it’s Maker, the cowboy was dead. We beat the drum slowly, played the fife lowly, And bitterly wept as we bore him along. For we all loved our comrade, so brave, and so handsome, We loved our young cowboy although he'd done wrong.
I love this song. I have sung it many times.. mostly at sad occasions. There are many versions of the lyrics, but this is the earliest version I've heard and the words are grittier. Did Text write this song? I would love to know the origins.
This is the "Western" part of Country and Western!
One of my favorites !! I’m 74
I was born in 1939 and remember this song in movies.
My dad's name is Ernest. He was born in 1934
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic It is an old name used by a lot of different country's ERNESTO-ERNST-EARNEST
God bless you
1939 sir? Wow.. are you a Tiger then??
I remember hearing this song, but this is first time I heard Tex Ritter’s version.
i learned this as a child in smoky London. Still sing it. 🤠🎼🎶🎶❤
It is derived from the English folk song, “The Unfortunate Rake,” or “The Unfortunate Lad,” as is “St. James Infirmary Blues.”
I got all his Album.'s, I Love all his songs. He is the only one that could sing them, and sing them right.
This song is so beautiful
I didn’t know Tex Ritter was an actor. Cool 👩🏻🏫👏🏻🥰‼️ I love cowboy (Western movies/TV Shows). I knew he was a singer and actor John Ritter’s father and that’s all.
Met Tex Ritter one night at our local resturant, got his autograph, was so great to meet him. I still have that autograph on a napkin.
Beautiful version. Tex Ritter had a 1 of a kind voice.
Miss you Tex!!! Miss you John!!
Ritter..You both mean alot to me!👍🌹🌹🥂
Only an old Texas cowboy can do this song justice.thrre will never be another Tex Ritter.
yes there is! he's a veteran who survived a helicopter crash working for NASA and I'm honored to know him!
Hilario Solis agree!!!
I would have to agree pilgrim.
@@abcrane Tex!!!👋💯
High Noon was one of my favorites. He sang it perfect.
As a kid I used ti listen to this with my dad who sadly passed away at a very young age Every time I hear this song it brings back so many good memories of my dad
Pauls Vids
grieving a loss of a patient no matter how good or complicated the relationship takes a life time. It sounds as if your pointed in the right direction.
My condolences.
Lost my dad when I was 14. He was already 62. He and Tax actually sang together or on the same radio show for a short time. Dad said he gave it up when he married -- saying he needed a real job.
I will take anything that makes me think of my Dad.
What a song!!! Tex Ritter was the greatest!
1 of my favourites
TEX RITTER CAME TO SEE ME WHEN I WORKED IN WESTERN WEAR STORES n more
One of my favourite songs,it's reminds me when Mr Harry Carey Jr sang it in John Ford's Three Godfathers movie.Marty Robbins and also country music singers sang it. It's a thrilling song. One of the best. God bless y'all and jeep it Country
Keep it,sorry .
We love our young cowboys. Well done, Tex.
Tex Ritter is my first cousin, several generations removed. When I was young, my schoolmates called me “Tex” and one that I still know, now in our 70s, still calls me Tex to this day. “The Streets of Laredo” is derived from the traditional English folk song, “The Unfortunate Rake,” as is the blues song “St. James Infirmary.” Fascinating how traditional songs change over time and place.
Audie Murphy is my Grandfather's Cousin.
The best example of the white linen wrap is the Movie The Missouri breaks. Great Marlon Brando movie
I GOT TO SEE THE PERFOREMANCE OF TEX AND HIS HORSE WHITE FLASH ON STAGE OF THE SMOOT THEATRE IN PARKERSBURG, WV. , THE YEAR WAS 1948, I WAS TEN YEARS OLD !
I love this song, there must be a 100 versions of it. I've hardly ever heard it sung with the same words.
That's the way it is with old cowboy songs. Originally, the cowboys sang to the cattle and just threw in whatever words happened to come in mind. Later the movie cowboys did the same thing when they recorded them. It's the same with folk and mountain music.
The late,great Jim Reeves does a lovely version too.
@@sheilafletcher8124 Everything Jim Reeves does is great. He's one of my favorites although I don't think I ever heard his version of this song. I'll have to look it up.
I've just looked up Reeves' version, it's a slower version but I can promise you you'll love it
Probably my favorite cowboy singer. Loved him and his son.
He is for sure without doubt Johnny Cash, before Johnny Cash. I'd bet a million Cash was inspired by his singing by this man!!!!
I was thinking the same
YeeHaw to the cowboys of the past
Roses to deaden the clods as they fall ❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭
Old school country 🎶🎶🎶🎶
He had a great voice!
Glenn Johnson Loved the old westerns and singers since growing up in the 50`s.Was in Fort Worth for the first time back in 2017 on a Phil Mack TV tour and it was just awesome.lifetime dream came true.Absolutely brilliant and many thanks for this upload.
I love listening to Great songs like is and I love it
I love Tex Ritter. Growing up, I used to play the very album you have pictured all the time. I grew up loving Cowboy music and still do. Thank you for posting!
Same on the ranch we had like 5 albums in the early 60s..and this was one of them...reminds me of a simpler time...miss my ol pops...
RIP TEX
The first sad song I remember hearing on the radio. Beat the drum slowly, throw the sod oer me.
Man I love this! First version I heard was Marty Robbins, who sings it superbly, next was Johnny (also great), then Burl Ives (also great, in a different way), but then this one really struck me. It's that deep resonant way Tex sings it. I like to sing, and trying to emulate Tex's style isn't easy, but it feels good, like a "warm vibratey feeling all through my gutty works" ("Clockwork Orange" movie quote). The only thing comparable would be "Sixteen Tons", by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Deep and powerful, and dripping with style and attitude. Awesome!
Tennessee Stud
Personally I think Eddy Arnolds version from the Cattle Call album is the best
Text had the perfect voice for the hard-bitten western songs.
Ole Tex !!
The song first appeared in 1910 and it's believed to have descended from an Irish folk song of the late 18th century called "The Unfortunate Rake"
As I was a walking down by the “Lock”,
As I was walking one morning of late,
Who did I spy but my own dear comrade,
Wrapp'd in flannel, so hard is his fate.
Chorus.
Had she but told me when she disordered me,
Had she but told me of it at the time,
I might have got salts and pills of white mercury,
But now I'm cut down in the height of my prime.
I boldly stepped up to him and kindly did ask him,
Why he was wrapp'd in flannel so white?
My body is injured and sadly disordered,
All by a young woman, my own heart's delight.
My father oft told me, and of[ten] times chided me,
And said my wicked ways would never do,
But I never minded him, nor ever heeded him,
[I] always kept up in my wicked ways.
Get six jolly fellows to carry my coffin,
And six pretty maidens to bear up my pall,
And give to each of them bunches of roses,
That they may not smell me as they go along.
[Over my coffin put handsful of lavender,
Handsful of lavender on every side,
Bunches of roses all over my coffin,
Saying there goes a young man cut down in his prime.]
Muffle your drums, play your pipes merrily,
Play the death [dead] march as you go along.
And fire your guns right over my coffin,
There goes an unfortunate lad to his home.
The "Lock" refers to a :Lock Hospital, that were for the treatment of general disease.
Sun Set
That sun still sets in the west
But that old trail is asphalt now
Baked by the sun hot and dry
The sounds of hoofs have passed
Herds of buffalo graze no more
Barbwire strung along
The fence post passed like a picket fence
As the truck tires whine on
The sweetgrass has all but gone
The mesquite is tall and thick
Prickly Pear covers the prairie
The Longhorns have gone
A saddle all covered in dust
The moth-riddled blanket flaps
Riding quirt amiss
Old spurs hung on a wall
On a post hangs a leather belt
With a holster cracked and rotting
That old hogleg turned brown
Brass all green
The lassoing cowboy is no more
That broad hat tipped back
His shirt sleeves rolled high
Jeans rolled double
His hair thinned and gray
High cheekbones darken
Bull hide tough
Hand scars a many
With eyes squinting
A straw chair leaned back
Daydreaming
No more round ups
That last ride was long ago
With a rolled cigarette on his lip
His words in a low key
That sun still sets in the west
Barry
4/3/2023
My family had this album and my brother and I played it all the time. I blame Tex Ritter for my practically bass singing voice.
Watching Reelz the life of John Ritter and it showed this is his father.
R I P
I like this version. Wasn't a big Tex Ritter fan as a little kid, but I remember some of his movies.
I don't know which movie this film clip accompanying the song is from but the gunfight scene indicates the actors actually knew how to shoot handguns. Watch an episode of "Have Gun Will Travel" and you see Paladin 'throwing the bullets" - from draw thru fire his gun never stops moving! He could even miss the broad side of a barn that way.
Ohhhhhhh, "outfit":. Definition, the Cowboy Cattle Wranglers and Herders. Ohhhh, too, Cowboy Outfit:. Definition, Cowboy Hat, Bandana, Boots, Jeans Cowboy Shirt. 😉😶😎🤕🤠
Wish I could have been cowboy & lived during 19th century & ben part of Old West!
But is was a hard life....
No you don't, really.
❤❤❤❤❤
Takes a lot to beat Marty Robbins but by golly he did it.
I still like Marty's version
What does Tex Ritter, George Jones, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, Clay Walker, The "Big Bopper" Janis Joplin, Johnny and Edger Winter, and Harry James all have in common? They all grew up within 30 miles of each other in Beaumont, Texas.
Part of the Great generation. Gone
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo,
As I walked out in Laredo one day,
I spied a young cowboy wrapped up in white linen,
Wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay.
"I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy."
These words he did say as I boldly stepped by.
"Come sit down beside me, hear my sad story;
Got shot in the breast and I know I must die!"
"Oh beat the drums slowly, play the fife lowly;
Play the Death March as you carry me along.
Take me to the green valley, throw the sod o'er me,
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong."
"Twas once in the saddle I used to go dashing:
Twas once in the saddle I used to go gay.
First got to drinking, then to card playing,
Got shot in the breast and you see where I lay."
"Go bring me a cup, a cup of cold water
To cool my parched lips with,” the cowboy then said.
Before I got to him, the spirit had left him
And gone to it’s Maker, the cowboy was dead.
We beat the drum slowly, played the fife lowly,
And bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade, so brave, and so handsome,
We loved our young cowboy although he'd done wrong.
John Ritter DAD
Good mass.
I love this song. I have sung it many times.. mostly at sad occasions. There are many versions of the lyrics, but this is the earliest version I've heard and the words are grittier. Did Text write this song? I would love to know the origins.
deck of cards
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Great song if u wana go nuts
religion doctor I think you’re right. I’m only here bc it was mentioned and mocked in Rocketman movie.
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Whose the original artist
It's an old folk song. It's been around well over a 100 years. That's one of the reasons why there are so many versions of the lyrics
And this one goes out to Ja Morant and his family...
8 57. I find reference
Think ritter ever really rode range or worked a rope? No....stop watching it amd live it
He was John Ritters daddy
Different to wat Marty sings