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(A song with many ancestors, including “The Unfortunate Rake”, and also known as “The Cowboy’s Lament. Laredo references many things, and several versions include drinking, gambling and prostitution as the main vices that eventually led to the cowboy’s demise.)

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As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a poor cowboy all wrapped in white linen, wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay

I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy
These words he did say as I swiftly stepped by
Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story, I’m shot in the breast and I know I must die

‘Twas once in the saddle I used to go dashing, ‘twas once in the saddle I used to go gay. Well, first led to drinking and then to card playing. Got shot in the breast and I’m dying today

Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin
Six pretty maidens carry my pall
Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin. Roses to deaden the clods as they fall

Then beat the drum slowly!
Play the fife lowly!
Play the death march as you carry me home
Take me, green valley!
Lay the earth o’er me
I’m a poor cowboy and I know I done wrong

We beat the drum slowly, we played the fife lowly. We bitterly wept as we carried him home. For we all loved our comrade, so brave, young and handsome. We all loved our comrade, although he’d done wrong

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from Halfway Home, released October 8, 2014

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Seth Mountain 이산 South Korea

Seth Martin (aka Seth Mountain or 이산), is a roots musician originally from the Pacific Northwest (US).

Continuing in the radical tradition of artists like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Utah Phillips, Martin has been living in Seoul since 2015. He regularly performs with Korean and foreign folk, indie and rock acts.

"Quite possibly the closest thing we have to Woody Guthrie."
--Bill Mallonee
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