Streets of New Reno - Various Artists/J.E. Sawyer/Nathaniel Chapman

As I walked out in the streets of new Reno

As I walked out in new Reno one day

I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen

Wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay

Oh beat the drums slowly and play the fife lowly

Play the dead March as you bear me along

Take me to the valley and lay the sod o'er me

I'm a young cowboy I know I've done wrong

I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy

These words he did say as I slowly walked by

Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story

I'm shot in the chest and today I must die

Go bring me a cup a cup of cold water

To cool my parched lips the cowboy then said

Before I returned his soul had departed

And gone to the roundup the cowboy was dead

Oh beat the drums slowly and play the fife lowly

Play the dead March as you bear me along

Take me to the valley and lay the sod o'er me

For I'm a young cowboy I know I've done wrong