As I walked out in the streets of Laredo, as I walked out in Laredo one day, I spied young cowboy all wrapped in white linen, All wrapped 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 and hear my sad story; I was shot in the breast and I know I must die."