In my opinion this has to be one of Ed Bruce's greatest songs. I tip my hat to him for this song, an outstanding performance! Thanks for posting this video.........Frank James
@dangleeye I am not sure. Bill was to vain to ever look that scruffy, especially in front of a camera. Look close at the old B/W's of Bill and the sketches. I don't think that is him.
MY SONG!!!! Not very many of us REAL COWBOYS/COWGIRLS left because a REAL COWBOY/COWGIRL would NEVER hurt or harm his/her horse! WE UNDERSTAND the importance of our Companions and we honor, cherish and will protect them no matter what!
So if you "claim" to be a Cowboy/Cowgirl and you believe in ANY kind of horse slaughtering YOU ARE NOT A REAL COWBOY/COWGIRL I wish we were back then, YOU get mad at me, we take it to the street at HIGH NOON so I could teach you RESPECT for your horse! ONLY IF!
@icetman you sir are a dumbass come to montana on our 3000 acre ranch you cant handle it you dumb pussy horses are a tool and cattle are food BITCHFUCKASS!!!!
I'm English but a few years ago I took a car drove alone from Denver down to Ouray to the 4 Corners then along northern New Mexico to Texas and then back to Denver through the Indian Reservation. Best trip of my life.Beautiful country. Wish I could have been there in the 1860s.
@blueskymut not famous, but a good shot and didnt like trouble but he died in a dual with a shottgun when he was drunk but he was a good man he owned a small part of west virginia ut not much and no he aint famous and never seen a picture of him sept the one of him with my great granpaw sellin off his land... we own it now but im surprised i saw his picture on here! you take care no bud! ride safe, drink responsibly, comin from a cowboy that knows his stuff...
The man is Joaquin Carrillo Murrieta, a California mexican who was accused of murder. In truth he was revenging the rape of his bride by 12 men. He killed eleven and the 12th man hanged himself
Joaquin is still a hero to many original California families. Google his name to find out more
I'm 102-years-old, broke saddle horses at Fort Keogh out of Miles City. Montana and rode forty miles a day. Just another piece of the American West and I'm almost gone. Thanks.
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy Old friend, while you may be in the twilight of your years you will never be gone. There are those of us out here that know and will never forget what you have done for all of us. You are in my prayers, my thoughts and my memory. Rest easy my friend, you have left a legacy.
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy you sir are mmy hero and id really like to have a good ole man to man (boy) conversation with you anytime sir id really like it. talking with an old timer as your self would be much preciated im 15 and i wish i could have a down to earth conversation with a real man like your self, thank you
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy Thanks dad for the Cowboy memories. You and Uncle Tim lived the real cowboy life. At 102 your stories are as real today as they were when I set at your feet so many rears ago. GJG
I loved him doing this one. Even as a girl I was raised on a Ranch here in Texas. The work is hotter than hell in the summer, colder than a SOB in winter. haul water if there is none, break ice if there is some. Cactus burns when it sticks, rattler will kill u and your horse, u wear ur spurs wired on ur boots. that way they are always there when u need them. ITS HARD FREAKING WORK, and u wanna be doing what ur friends r doing, but I would NEVER GROW UP ANY DIFFERENT, ever.. :-)
Its the end of a 200 year old waltz . and it really brings tears to my eyes to know that probably less than 1% even know what im talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a great History America has, you can be proud to be a cowboy!!! .I have been overthere and i love TEXAS..God bless you all.. Wally Sydney Australia.. "What a great Video"
I agree, this is the best version of this song so far. It traces the history of the cowboy culture in America.Too bad, technology and industrial developments overtook this way of life. It will always be a part of American history,.
I agree, this is the best version of this song so far. It traces the history of the cowboy culture in America.Too bad, technology and industrial developments overtook this way of life.
I feel like I was born in the wrong century. Instead of born in 1959 I wish I was born in the year of 1859... I really love the American Cowboy life style, and country music!
This song, these pictures take me back to my childhood in Oklahoma, raised with men who embodied this ideal,, hell, some pics look familiar. Wish men were still men as defined by the men I loved as I grew up, a little girl in Indian Territory. Thank you for this video.
The Greeks had Homer's Oydessy, France, the Song of Roland, Britain the King Arthur legend & the Dane's had Beowolf. America has all these rolled up into one with the Cowboy Saga.
What a great song!I'm a realy great fan of the old Countrytunes and westernmusic.Í dreamed offen that I was a cowboy who was riding over the prairy's and mountains and taking care of the cattle and singing,,Restless cattle"of Marty Robbins and ,,Cattle call"of Slim Whitman.I hope that this kind of music will stay alive and will never die.My own two kids love the sound of countrymusic and I'm sure that there will be more youngsters who love this kind of music to.Once again thank you for posting.
There are a few old cowhands and cowboys still hang'n on in hopes and prayers somehow, someway can once again ride the range with the freedoms endowed by our founding fathers in form'n this great country. However like the great nations of American Indians, the corruption, power and greed in and thru our Nation's capitol have rip'd the heart out of everything so many died and fought for thru all these years to protect and defend it as a Constitutional Republic! God Bless what was AMERICA!
Thanks for posting this! So many young DJs and country/western music singers have forgotten what it sounds like. Country music sells more than any other genre; now rappers and rock and roll musicians are trying to get into it.
Thank You!!,,Love the Song and the photos are hypnotizing,,I`m sure there is a
personal story behind each photo..And I would love to here the stories they would tell.. I`m afraid America will never be as great as it was back then, I Cry ever time I play this Video...:( :(
I hate to sound like a cliche but when we think about how great America was let's try to remember that was true only if you were white, male, and healthy. I don't think it's fair comparing one age to another. Things are different today. I grew up in the 1950s, a time of peace & prosperity, when life for a little boy was safe. I could hop on my bike and ride all day without worry. I stress that my children never had the freedom. But I don't wish for the past. The past is over.
@RogerHWerner America has been great, her citizens standing out among the history of the world in the last few centuries. No country, no group of people always gets it right, Lord knows we fail, but there were many Mexican, African American, Native American and various mixes of all of them in this Cowboy heritage a lot of know and revere. Bill Pickett comes to mind first, I learned of him early. Let's just enjoy the music of a way of life lost, good and bad.
@MrAbood015 gee you numb nut tinhorn let me educate your green horn queer ass notions...there was just as many homosexuals then as now. Many had more balls than little pissants like your sorry pussy faced self. Most cowboys were BLACK or mexicans not white trash bible thumping sacks of crap. Granted many were catholics idiots or hypocritical baptist boobs. JUST like your lard ass unamerican self. I grew up in indian country, I rode with 8th cav and the 7th. Your just another porch monkey.
This is a wonderfully put together video ... LOVE your collection of vintage pics! LOVE the song ... and the way you edited the pics with words is marvelous. That is not so easy ... as it appears. Thank you so much for this great tribute.
It was written by Ron Peterson Sr. Originally sung by Jim Ed Bruce and remixed by the Highwaymen so you hear Jim Ed, Waylon, Willie, Kris, and Johnny on it as well.
This is one of the greatest country songs. Jim Arness (marshall Dillon passed today) can you remember playing cowboys and everybody wanted to be Matt Dillon? He will be missed, RIP Mr Dillon.
the cowboy mentality is just as strong over here in Scotland as it is in the States. There are a few of us still have the same values as you guys, work hard, play hard, and love and treat your Woman right
I would like to dedicate this song to my grandad and dad. My dad is 95 and going strong. I grew up having breakfast at 5 and in the saddle by 5:30. Lunch buscuits and saugage. Girl or not I carried rife, bedroll and did what was needed. Didn't smoke but could chew with the best. When you left the house you didn't know for sure when you'd be back. I knew dad and grandad wouldn't let anything happen. Carefree days of freezing and fire hot days just working, hunting, and fishing.
@katie80079 its the ones like you who helped make america great. you were givers not takers. you worked for a living. you had character, your hand shake sealed an honest deal. we miss that today.
even in the time of Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett and Colonel Travis and Daniel Boone before them or after (not sure) were better then now. when you looked out from a mountain you saw endless wilderness, now you don't, we needs to go back to the time of the mountain man and the Indians who lived in peace with a lot of mountain men the movement of all the white settlers set them off and they had a right to fight an invading race who needed to learn to live with the Indians not against them
and by the way believe it or not theres a little town in New York, NEW YORK that is more like the old west then a lot of places there i should know im from there. They have dirt rodes in town and hitchin" posts out in front of the buildings there but its still not the same when people come through in cars and that town is gettin over crowded and expanding, its a shame to see it happening fuck you American pricks who only give a damn about greed
this country present day makes me want to cry especially when i know how it used to be, i hear people say that it was unsafe and dirty and hazardous to your health, well stay back east or in europe because these were better times
Some people would say that it was all too dirty and muddy, too hot or too cold, too unhealthy and dangerous to live during those times... but at least it was all REAL!!!
@Rocketfing3r yes i agree. i remember as a child loving the indian head and buffalo nickle. my husband is a seneca native american. im from arkansas and remember hearing bob wills.on the radio, i have some cherokee blood, im proud of. we gave the germans and japanese their land back...why didnt they give native americans a part of this land? i dont mean used up badlands , but good farmland to sustain themselves?
The main lyrics here I think are sung by Walon Jennings? Willie Nelsen has a part near the end. The Jennings and Nelson version of this song is probably one the best known versions. This could be a The Highwaymen verson (Waylon Jennyings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristopherson)...Whatever I love this song.
@RogerHWerner where in the hell did you come from. this is singer/writer Ed Bruce, Willie did a small part of it. Bruce wrote Moma Don't let Your Babys Grow Up To Be Cowboys and a lot other with cowboys in mind
The main lyrics here I think are by Walon Jennings? Willie Nelsen has a small part near the end. The Jennings and Nelson version of this song is probabyl the best known. Then again as I listen to it perhaps the main voice is Jerry Jeff Walker? Whatever I love this song.
I am a city girl who has spent many happy days in Texas with my brother--I love cowboys--sent this to mybrother who i know will share. i love WILLY TOO. Thanks for giving me so much pleasure..
me, my dad, my grand father and great grand father are Texas cowboys and the range is shrinking little by little and as long as ive got my six gun and my horse I'm happy. all i can say is keep on riding and don't let the government situation get you down.
I'm from north west Texas so this song hits home to me, my great grand father still owns land near Amarillo and has about 150 head of cattle so good job with this song and keep up with the good work
We are still around. Our range is shrinking and being taken by environmental groups but we are still around. Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, and Utah all have a few. Nevada Buckaroo's I doubt will change too much for a while, we are too stubborn.
The end of a hundred year waltz begins again. I will always keep this song alive in my heart. I miss the yesteryear I wasn't apart of. Thank you for posting this. God bless America.
This song about makes me cry... I am a rancher in wyo and there are many days i sit on top of a hill on a broncy colt and wonder what it would be like to be back before barbed wire and semi trucks. I was born a century late. I think they stole the prairie from us when they strung all that wire
This is a great song, thanks for sharing!
djmc4251 4 days ago
the cowboy with top comment just died!
joe23ba 6 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
cowboys, no better life than rideing and tending cattle, a great life. and i'm getting old to. thanks for posting ed's song.
01trailboss 1 week ago
JDL9615
Thank you for uploading this video and song. :))
BoudiccaBlanc 1 week ago
From Alberta,Canada that was excellent :))
themissydragon 1 week ago
Howdy
this was Excellent
thanks for posting this beautiful song
stay cool
Rich in WV
1958wvpicker 1 week ago
In my opinion this has to be one of Ed Bruce's greatest songs. I tip my hat to him for this song, an outstanding performance! Thanks for posting this video.........Frank James
FrankJamesMusic 1 week ago
@FrankJamesMusic
Howdy Frank
man this was fantastic
thank for sharing this with me
stay cool
Rich
1958wvpicker 1 week ago
@ 3;11 its wild bill no joke look it up on western legends
dangleeye 3 weeks ago
@dangleeye I am not sure. Bill was to vain to ever look that scruffy, especially in front of a camera. Look close at the old B/W's of Bill and the sketches. I don't think that is him.
zappasaurus 3 weeks ago
MY SONG!!!! Not very many of us REAL COWBOYS/COWGIRLS left because a REAL COWBOY/COWGIRL would NEVER hurt or harm his/her horse! WE UNDERSTAND the importance of our Companions and we honor, cherish and will protect them no matter what!
So if you "claim" to be a Cowboy/Cowgirl and you believe in ANY kind of horse slaughtering YOU ARE NOT A REAL COWBOY/COWGIRL I wish we were back then, YOU get mad at me, we take it to the street at HIGH NOON so I could teach you RESPECT for your horse! ONLY IF!
icetman 3 weeks ago
@icetman you sir are a dumbass come to montana on our 3000 acre ranch you cant handle it you dumb pussy horses are a tool and cattle are food BITCHFUCKASS!!!!
dangleeye 3 weeks ago
I'm English but a few years ago I took a car drove alone from Denver down to Ouray to the 4 Corners then along northern New Mexico to Texas and then back to Denver through the Indian Reservation. Best trip of my life.Beautiful country. Wish I could have been there in the 1860s.
watto3535 4 weeks ago
Thanks anyway, Great song and compilation.
oneroundwonder 1 month ago
Do you happen to know who the man is pictured at 3:11.
blueskymut 1 month ago
Sorry I don't know. All the pictures used were collected from an image search using Google and Yahoo.
JDL9615 1 month ago
@blueskymut john mayer II from west virginia in late 1800's
joe23ba 1 month ago
@joe23ba Thanks Joe, was he famous in some way? Do you know his story? I searched his name but nothing came up.
blueskymut 1 month ago
@blueskymut not famous, but a good shot and didnt like trouble but he died in a dual with a shottgun when he was drunk but he was a good man he owned a small part of west virginia ut not much and no he aint famous and never seen a picture of him sept the one of him with my great granpaw sellin off his land... we own it now but im surprised i saw his picture on here! you take care no bud! ride safe, drink responsibly, comin from a cowboy that knows his stuff...
joe23ba 1 month ago
@joe23ba Great story Joe, thanks and Merry Christmas to you.
blueskymut 1 month ago
@blueskymut Looks like weird al Lol
theshadow321 1 month ago
@blueskymut That's Buffalo Bill Cody
rkniseley 3 weeks ago
@blueskymut
The man is Joaquin Carrillo Murrieta, a California mexican who was accused of murder. In truth he was revenging the rape of his bride by 12 men. He killed eleven and the 12th man hanged himself
Joaquin is still a hero to many original California families. Google his name to find out more
peruvianstallion1 1 week ago
great version .Better than the Highwayman's
kenedal1 1 month ago
Wasn't Ed Bruce In a band in the '80's named Sawmill Creek? Barely Gettin' There was one they did back the old Beacon Club days in Casper I think.
81eagle 1 month ago
Yes!! you blazed the trails,,,all we can do is follow! thank you.
Mr4321John 1 month ago
Oh hell yeah.
TheJoebear2 1 month ago
I'm 102-years-old, broke saddle horses at Fort Keogh out of Miles City. Montana and rode forty miles a day. Just another piece of the American West and I'm almost gone. Thanks.
GAGPowderRiverCowboy 1 month ago 31
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy Old friend, while you may be in the twilight of your years you will never be gone. There are those of us out here that know and will never forget what you have done for all of us. You are in my prayers, my thoughts and my memory. Rest easy my friend, you have left a legacy.
MrRrigsby 1 month ago
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy you sir are mmy hero and id really like to have a good ole man to man (boy) conversation with you anytime sir id really like it. talking with an old timer as your self would be much preciated im 15 and i wish i could have a down to earth conversation with a real man like your self, thank you
joe23ba 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy I will miss you Dear !
bscondict 4 weeks ago
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy the old day was good i use to here many story abuot im from saudi arabia but i hope to Visit Teixs
ziad42 4 weeks ago
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy Thanks dad for the Cowboy memories. You and Uncle Tim lived the real cowboy life. At 102 your stories are as real today as they were when I set at your feet so many rears ago. GJG
kauaikeoki 3 weeks ago
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy would love to meet you sir. please tell all the wanabe cowboys how it really was much respect. bless you for paving the way.
dangleeye 3 weeks ago
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy thanks for sharing good sir
dmetalii 2 weeks ago
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy
God Bless You. :))
Thank you for uploading this song and video. :)
BoudiccaBlanc 2 weeks ago
@BoudiccaBlanc he didnt upload the video dumb fuck
joe23ba 6 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
@GAGPowderRiverCowboy hats off to you, one of the last of a dying breed. Long live cowboys!
winsaloteasy 1 week ago
Blijf mooi ,denk nog terug in de jaren 70 toen zong hij deze song in de Ahoy'mooie herinering
matheaish 1 month ago
I loved him doing this one. Even as a girl I was raised on a Ranch here in Texas. The work is hotter than hell in the summer, colder than a SOB in winter. haul water if there is none, break ice if there is some. Cactus burns when it sticks, rattler will kill u and your horse, u wear ur spurs wired on ur boots. that way they are always there when u need them. ITS HARD FREAKING WORK, and u wanna be doing what ur friends r doing, but I would NEVER GROW UP ANY DIFFERENT, ever.. :-)
txgreenis45 2 months ago 2
One of the best cowboy songs ever, thank you for this beautiful song.
rockforlive997 2 months ago in playlist Playlist 3
You've made a beautiful video for a great song.
bulbheadmyass 2 months ago
Thank you for this song and video. We played it at my Father's recent funeral. He was a cowboy thru and thru!
gr8grm77 2 months ago 4
nice channel. try my channel for the real life. take care
wgnwheel1 2 months ago
You've done a wonderful job on this! Thank You, I really enjoyed it!
TheSocialZebra 2 months ago
Great song. Never get tired of this one...Twenty-four people that voted could never be a Cowboy. Thanks...
Wayne..
Seazer009 2 months ago
Great America! Damn I'm french, and it makes me sick...
Good vid ;)
TheSoyouz69 2 months ago
Its the end of a 200 year old waltz . and it really brings tears to my eyes to know that probably less than 1% even know what im talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
clemm17 2 months ago
Just wonderful,makes you wish you were there
Bestspidertoy 2 months ago
you did an awesome job. I miss those days too
oldlostone 2 months ago
What a great History America has, you can be proud to be a cowboy!!! .I have been overthere and i love TEXAS..God bless you all.. Wally Sydney Australia.. "What a great Video"
wally221000 3 months ago
Old Guys Rule. "Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch " John Wayne .
ruandted 3 months ago
this my best sonG
if i bored in the car i open this song
and become relax looool
1993GoodGuy 3 months ago
im producing a free roam American Western cowboy shooter like red dead redemption im going to use this song for the intro to the game.
ParrallaxMedia 3 months ago
Go stay home cowboys. Sorry hey. Stay just home. Songs are one thing.
Pity I love your songs so much. People are angry at the USA. At times ... you are our baby's. To be raised to have maners. At times and some of you.
SelfTubeFreak 3 months ago
I really liked the way this all blends in with The Highwaymen, good job on the mix...
RandyWilliams1944 3 months ago
Ed you and the boys bring tears of times gone by, i love your musick. thanks poster great works.
latykai 3 months ago
Great dobro by Lloyd Green.
ArkRed1 3 months ago
A great version of this song -and what a brilliant video!thanks for posting.
billboy508 3 months ago
I agree, this is the best version of this song so far. It traces the history of the cowboy culture in America.Too bad, technology and industrial developments overtook this way of life. It will always be a part of American history,.
hilaga2008 3 months ago
I agree, this is the best version of this song so far. It traces the history of the cowboy culture in America.Too bad, technology and industrial developments overtook this way of life.
hilaga2008 3 months ago
Willie Nelson & Barack Obama sang that song heheheheh....
mariastephen62 3 months ago
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How can I become a cowboy?
MrLittlerobber 3 months ago
@MrLittlerobber your born as a cowboy. u just cant be one. im a proud cowboy
panthersl56 2 months ago
This one makes me think hard and remember what I have witnessed by the remnants of what greatness they laid down. God bless the U.S.!
ihcatihj 3 months ago
23 fools last thought was while they were lost, love this song great job ED.
GENERAL1749 3 months ago
thanks
MrKHALED135 3 months ago
I can't remember not wondering what it was like to be a Indian!
nesquikADDICTED 3 months ago
great version the highway med do it fantastic justic
rchardphelan 3 months ago
my wife and my daughter, told me im not a cowboy anymore., but they can"t take it from my heart. but it will always be there inside of me forever.
rodeoclown58 3 months ago
@rodeoclown58 cowboys a way of life nobody can take that away
backcountryable 3 months ago
I hear Willie Nelson singing too.
driverbob 3 months ago
wonderful
Dalcwby1 3 months ago
beautiful song , great country , nice folk ....in Australia we had Slim Dusty , Ringer from the top end .
ruandted 3 months ago
Música sensacional !!!!!!!
Amazing !!!!
Saudações do Brasil....
nandcunha 3 months ago
This is the best version of this song,as well as a great video/still pics with this song
WalkTheLineJohn 4 months ago 7
Thank You!
JDL9615 4 months ago
@WalkTheLineJohn OPRAVDU NEJLEPŠÍ VERZE A VIDEO JE SUPER
5160papu 1 week ago
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This song is sad :(
sesimeseed17 4 months ago
Dude, westward expansion wasnt until after the civil war
sesimeseed17 4 months ago
I feel like I was born in the wrong century. Instead of born in 1959 I wish I was born in the year of 1859... I really love the American Cowboy life style, and country music!
mipeder 4 months ago
@mipeder I have all ways thought I wsa born 100 years too late myself.
sperk31161 3 months ago
this is not only the last cowboy song but the last men song what a beutifull photos thanks.
tjeeroo 4 months ago 4
This song, these pictures take me back to my childhood in Oklahoma, raised with men who embodied this ideal,, hell, some pics look familiar. Wish men were still men as defined by the men I loved as I grew up, a little girl in Indian Territory. Thank you for this video.
GoldenPig2012 4 months ago
pass the beans . . .
aver3029 4 months ago
The Greeks had Homer's Oydessy, France, the Song of Roland, Britain the King Arthur legend & the Dane's had Beowolf. America has all these rolled up into one with the Cowboy Saga.
elLocoChongo 4 months ago
Right On Scotsman!
Many of us cowboys came from families dating back to "the Isles".
We'll be Back!
elLocoChongo 4 months ago
Totally excellent !! Beautiful and so sad to see that era gone. Thank heavens music like this keeps our memories alive.
2 thumbs up.
Sherry
sherrywine1941 4 months ago
a childhood favorite of mine. this song will be with me all my life.
josiatorrez 4 months ago
this should be played at the end of red dead redemption when john gets shot
rocknsockify 4 months ago
Sometimes i wish i was a cowboy..
RulerL0rd 5 months ago
Now im sad :(
Dantick09 5 months ago
What a great song!I'm a realy great fan of the old Countrytunes and westernmusic.Í dreamed offen that I was a cowboy who was riding over the prairy's and mountains and taking care of the cattle and singing,,Restless cattle"of Marty Robbins and ,,Cattle call"of Slim Whitman.I hope that this kind of music will stay alive and will never die.My own two kids love the sound of countrymusic and I'm sure that there will be more youngsters who love this kind of music to.Once again thank you for posting.
jhtenvelde 5 months ago
I've been looking for mp3 download of this version. Can't find it anywhere. Any suggestions?
LoneStarTweety 5 months ago
I just LOVE this. I can't quit listening to it. Thanks for posting. The pictures are fabulous
LoneStarTweety 5 months ago
There are a few old cowhands and cowboys still hang'n on in hopes and prayers somehow, someway can once again ride the range with the freedoms endowed by our founding fathers in form'n this great country. However like the great nations of American Indians, the corruption, power and greed in and thru our Nation's capitol have rip'd the heart out of everything so many died and fought for thru all these years to protect and defend it as a Constitutional Republic! God Bless what was AMERICA!
OleWarhorse 5 months ago
I like it very much, but it's so sad. Is there any upside to this song?
goodspeed4316 5 months ago
Wonderful song....I never get tired of listening to it. Thank you for sharing.
eeshinnall 6 months ago
work hard play hard and die like you have actually lived if even for a short time
60fatman 6 months ago
Thanks for posting this! So many young DJs and country/western music singers have forgotten what it sounds like. Country music sells more than any other genre; now rappers and rock and roll musicians are trying to get into it.
GunBigotHater 6 months ago
excellent video I hope this kind of tradition never would be lost
CJAJ03 6 months ago
yes the 1 and only Ed Bruce perfect......
57thefox 6 months ago
Wonderful video and love the song
TheSunshinestation 6 months ago
sadly yes in many areas of US but in some still exist...............thankfully
ORYGUNLADY 6 months ago
Thank You!!,,Love the Song and the photos are hypnotizing,,I`m sure there is a
personal story behind each photo..And I would love to here the stories they would tell.. I`m afraid America will never be as great as it was back then, I Cry ever time I play this Video...:( :(
CSBT 7 months ago 15
I believe America's best days are still ahead of us.
JDL9615 7 months ago 3
@JDL9615 I have Grandchildren....So for their future I hope you are Right..Thank You...
CSBT 7 months ago
@JDL9615 we all got our opinions
mrorhunter1 5 months ago
@JDL9615 The whole planet's best days are behind us man.. The ages are gettin darker, meaner, and pretty much shitty for everyone... :'(
FrostSalonica 4 months ago
@JDL9615 We all hope so :)
thinkersrock69 3 months ago
@JDL9615 then you're a damn fool.
HillSavage72 2 months ago
I hate to sound like a cliche but when we think about how great America was let's try to remember that was true only if you were white, male, and healthy. I don't think it's fair comparing one age to another. Things are different today. I grew up in the 1950s, a time of peace & prosperity, when life for a little boy was safe. I could hop on my bike and ride all day without worry. I stress that my children never had the freedom. But I don't wish for the past. The past is over.
RogerHWerner 4 months ago
@RogerHWerner
Lost in the history & Hollywood westerns is the fact that about one third of the Cowboys were persons of color.
viz: Black, Hispanic, Indian ie: a Black Cowboy named Pickett won the 1910 Rodeo Award.
Spanning a 40 yr post civil-war era.
elLocoChongo 4 months ago
That's such a great point to make. I'd say most of the modern day cowboys I know are Hispanic (vaqueros). And the music of choice of mariachi.
RogerHWerner 4 months ago
@RogerHWerner America has been great, her citizens standing out among the history of the world in the last few centuries. No country, no group of people always gets it right, Lord knows we fail, but there were many Mexican, African American, Native American and various mixes of all of them in this Cowboy heritage a lot of know and revere. Bill Pickett comes to mind first, I learned of him early. Let's just enjoy the music of a way of life lost, good and bad.
GoldenPig2012 4 months ago
You'll get no arguments from me. Your's is a positive comment. Judging by the group is foolishness. Take people one at a time and judge by character!
RogerHWerner 4 months ago
a lot of brave men dead in the west
now in 2011 we can see a lot of Chicken and many biches like gay and lesbian
hhhhhhhhhhhh
MrAbood015 7 months ago
@MrAbood015 gee you numb nut tinhorn let me educate your green horn queer ass notions...there was just as many homosexuals then as now. Many had more balls than little pissants like your sorry pussy faced self. Most cowboys were BLACK or mexicans not white trash bible thumping sacks of crap. Granted many were catholics idiots or hypocritical baptist boobs. JUST like your lard ass unamerican self. I grew up in indian country, I rode with 8th cav and the 7th. Your just another porch monkey.
GrigoriZhukov 6 months ago
This is a wonderfully put together video ... LOVE your collection of vintage pics! LOVE the song ... and the way you edited the pics with words is marvelous. That is not so easy ... as it appears. Thank you so much for this great tribute.
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Ridereye 7 months ago
Good job. Thanks!
1cbyoung 7 months ago
It was written by Ron Peterson Sr. Originally sung by Jim Ed Bruce and remixed by the Highwaymen so you hear Jim Ed, Waylon, Willie, Kris, and Johnny on it as well.
13eianluke13 7 months ago
this has been added to my "favorites" the romance of the old west still lives. ed bruce you got it going on!
mlbarnwell32 7 months ago
This is the original version , by Ed Bruce . Very nice , great pictures .
oklahmabootlegger 7 months ago
This is one of the greatest country songs. Jim Arness (marshall Dillon passed today) can you remember playing cowboys and everybody wanted to be Matt Dillon? He will be missed, RIP Mr Dillon.
irtony1 7 months ago
the cowboy mentality is just as strong over here in Scotland as it is in the States. There are a few of us still have the same values as you guys, work hard, play hard, and love and treat your Woman right
scottishcowboy1 8 months ago 23
@scottishcowboy1
Pleased to met you. Ancestors came from the Isles.
Don't fret, we'll be back.
elLocoChongo 4 months ago
@elLocoChongo
if you ever wind up over here, feel free to come and visit our place we will show you how we raise cattle over here
scottishcowboy1 4 months ago
I would like to dedicate this song to my grandad and dad. My dad is 95 and going strong. I grew up having breakfast at 5 and in the saddle by 5:30. Lunch buscuits and saugage. Girl or not I carried rife, bedroll and did what was needed. Didn't smoke but could chew with the best. When you left the house you didn't know for sure when you'd be back. I knew dad and grandad wouldn't let anything happen. Carefree days of freezing and fire hot days just working, hunting, and fishing.
katie80079 8 months ago 3
@katie80079 its the ones like you who helped make america great. you were givers not takers. you worked for a living. you had character, your hand shake sealed an honest deal. we miss that today.
mlbarnwell32 7 months ago
Rode with the seven. Wish I could of. I was born 100 years to late. One of the best country songs ever!!!
constructioncowboy1 8 months ago
Great pictures!
soer5523 8 months ago
even in the time of Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett and Colonel Travis and Daniel Boone before them or after (not sure) were better then now. when you looked out from a mountain you saw endless wilderness, now you don't, we needs to go back to the time of the mountain man and the Indians who lived in peace with a lot of mountain men the movement of all the white settlers set them off and they had a right to fight an invading race who needed to learn to live with the Indians not against them
asdl805 8 months ago
and by the way believe it or not theres a little town in New York, NEW YORK that is more like the old west then a lot of places there i should know im from there. They have dirt rodes in town and hitchin" posts out in front of the buildings there but its still not the same when people come through in cars and that town is gettin over crowded and expanding, its a shame to see it happening fuck you American pricks who only give a damn about greed
asdl805 8 months ago
this country present day makes me want to cry especially when i know how it used to be, i hear people say that it was unsafe and dirty and hazardous to your health, well stay back east or in europe because these were better times
asdl805 8 months ago
Some people would say that it was all too dirty and muddy, too hot or too cold, too unhealthy and dangerous to live during those times... but at least it was all REAL!!!
Rocketfing3r 8 months ago
@Rocketfing3r i would rather have it like that now instead of this garbage we got present day
asdl805 8 months ago
@asdl805 Indeed my friend, indeed...
Rocketfing3r 8 months ago
@Rocketfing3r yes i agree. i remember as a child loving the indian head and buffalo nickle. my husband is a seneca native american. im from arkansas and remember hearing bob wills.on the radio, i have some cherokee blood, im proud of. we gave the germans and japanese their land back...why didnt they give native americans a part of this land? i dont mean used up badlands , but good farmland to sustain themselves?
mlbarnwell32 7 months ago
@mlbarnwell32 We were brought here to destroy and conquer, don't you see? we are plague-bringers, vermin in this world...
Rocketfing3r 7 months ago
We got Cowboys and Cowgirls all over the United States we are still out there.
Hearding cattle branding and ranchin and farming we have 226 acres and there
isn't anything like it that you see now days. We have saloons and hitchin' posts
outside the bars and our horses are our designated drivers and they know there
way home__We are still here and don't plan on going anywhere so kick your boots
off and wait for Ole' Pete the Rooster to wake your ass up about 5 am every morning.
Dusty
2DRoads 8 months ago 3
@2DRoads Good to know, sir.
Rocketfing3r 8 months ago
@2DRoads where the hell is this i'm movin there tell ye that now
asdl805 8 months ago
@asdl805 That's why i ain't tellin' ya. It's good just the way it is the right
people live here and keep it that way don't need strangers changing it.
Buy some acres and start a little town of your own you too can have this
Now let me ask you a question...{{{ YOU A TROLL ACCOUNT }}} no vids
no friends just making comments that's usually what trolls do to start trouble.
Get out there and start yourself a city and you can run for Marshall with a
star badge and all. Life is great!! Dusty
2DRoads 8 months ago
@2DRoads i had to make a new account because it wouldn't let me in my other one so its been about a day since i made
asdl805 8 months ago
I love cawboy because my daddy love it but my daddy he's dead right now )':
mohameed136 8 months ago
I was born in the wrong century . The things weve lost with time make me want to cry
Whitecracka1324 8 months ago
@Whitecracka1324 same here i wish that this country didnt ruin itself
asdl805 8 months ago
Not true. The Cowboy is not dead.
Wanna believe, come to Cody Wyoming, the last bastion of the West
Guaranteed the Cowboy survives. We will not die
Come visit us in Cody Wyoming, you will know the cowboys are not dead.
We'd be happy for you come visit, milk our cows, ride our horses, come to our shootouts, even shoot your guns off in BLM land or our gun range.
Freedom is here, the last we will ever have.
Patriots, Come join us.
capt777737 8 months ago
Not true. The Cowboy is not dead.
Wanna believe, come to Cody Wyoming, the last bastion of the West
Guaranteed the Cowboy survives. We will not die
Come visit us in Cody Wyoming, you will know the cowboys are not dead.
We'd be happy for you come visit, milk our cows, ride our horses, come to our shootouts, even shoot your guns off in BLM land or our gun range.
Freedom is here, the last we will ever have.
Patriots, Come join us.
capt777737 8 months ago
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This is Ed Bruce. Love this song!
deano57chevy 8 months ago
This is Ed Bruce. Love this song!
deano57chevy 8 months ago 2
This makes me cry.I wander what it was like back then.The cowboys will never die.Love the song
PaperforSilver 9 months ago
This is the last cowboy song the end of a hundred year waltz
Voices sound sad as they're singing along another piece of America's lost
BEST PIECE OF AMERICA.
haarlemscc 9 months ago
the highwaymen sang this
ccgifts 9 months ago
@ccgifts That I didn't know. This version is sung by Ed Bruce
JDL9615 9 months ago
@ccgifts they covered it, Ed Bruce was the original :)
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hornyallthetimenate 5 months ago
Nothin' like a good cowboy song with a great video.
fngrpkn06 9 months ago
16 people are idiots....
bigdaddypimpin101 9 months ago
ed bruce sounds alot like don williams!:)
tannerturlington 9 months ago
The main lyrics here I think are sung by Walon Jennings? Willie Nelsen has a part near the end. The Jennings and Nelson version of this song is probably one the best known versions. This could be a The Highwaymen verson (Waylon Jennyings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristopherson)...Whatever I love this song.
RogerHWerner 9 months ago
@RogerHWerner: Ed Bruce is the singer.
JDL9615 9 months ago 3
@JDL9615 the highwaymen sang this
ccgifts 9 months ago
@RogerHWerner the highwaymen sang this
ccgifts 9 months ago
@RogerHWerner where in the hell did you come from. this is singer/writer Ed Bruce, Willie did a small part of it. Bruce wrote Moma Don't let Your Babys Grow Up To Be Cowboys and a lot other with cowboys in mind
richtogo 6 months ago
The main lyrics here I think are by Walon Jennings? Willie Nelsen has a small part near the end. The Jennings and Nelson version of this song is probabyl the best known. Then again as I listen to it perhaps the main voice is Jerry Jeff Walker? Whatever I love this song.
RogerHWerner 9 months ago
I am a city girl who has spent many happy days in Texas with my brother--I love cowboys--sent this to mybrother who i know will share. i love WILLY TOO. Thanks for giving me so much pleasure..
whatmeworrygerry 9 months ago
good song
texas 4ever
WWEHBK49749 9 months ago
me, my dad, my grand father and great grand father are Texas cowboys and the range is shrinking little by little and as long as ive got my six gun and my horse I'm happy. all i can say is keep on riding and don't let the government situation get you down.
ThePanzergroupwest 9 months ago
I'm from north west Texas so this song hits home to me, my great grand father still owns land near Amarillo and has about 150 head of cattle so good job with this song and keep up with the good work
ThePanzergroupwest 9 months ago
We are still around. Our range is shrinking and being taken by environmental groups but we are still around. Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, and Utah all have a few. Nevada Buckaroo's I doubt will change too much for a while, we are too stubborn.
erao88 9 months ago
The end of a hundred year waltz begins again. I will always keep this song alive in my heart. I miss the yesteryear I wasn't apart of. Thank you for posting this. God bless America.
TheJerhico 10 months ago
Damn. Born too late.
Man-" Go west young man, Go west!"
Me-" Hell yes!!!!!"
DukeofUSA 10 months ago
Great One .....
1954WBA 10 months ago
Yep born too damn late and way to early....missed my call for sure whom ever put this together.. there are no words..just thanks
kettlerbillteresa 10 months ago
ONE DAY THE LAND WILL BE OPEN AGAIN... AND THE MUSTANGS WILL RUN WILD AND FREE......
desertfox94506 10 months ago 2
This song about makes me cry... I am a rancher in wyo and there are many days i sit on top of a hill on a broncy colt and wonder what it would be like to be back before barbed wire and semi trucks. I was born a century late. I think they stole the prairie from us when they strung all that wire
TeJay44 10 months ago 2