I’m a boulevard cowboy, A Jitney man: That’s my pedigree. And I live in the carrie Forty seventh and Prairie- Everybody in Chicago knows me. You can dig me at Ernie’s old chicken shack, pickin’ bones, you know. Take my gal to the Regal when I’m hodling plenty Jack, And make her stay home when her funds are low. I’m just a cowboy from oatmeal boulevard.
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Text Authorship:
- by Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Margaret Bonds (1913 - 1972), "Cowboy from South Parkway", 1940 [ voice and piano ], from Tropics After Dark, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
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