While we have attempted accuracy on these lyrics, the famous "folk process" of stealing and plagiarizing and adapting and adjusting and misremembering lyrics makes finding the ONE version of the song which is most authentic almost impossible. The typical Folkways typed liner note booklet, for all the scholarly pretensions, had careless errors. Cisco adapted songs to fit his voice and his rhythms, performed differently on different occasions, and never thought he was reciting the Old Testament. So, these are the lyrics as we hear them, on a version we have.
Not a professional cowboy? The following list may help you understand some of the terminology: Cowboy Definitions.
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Song Titles
900 Miles
ABC
Badman Ballad
Barbara Allen
Beans, Bacon and Gravy
Bed On The Floor
Bed On The Floor (With Woody Guthrie)
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Bile Dem Cabbage Down
Black Is The Color
Blow The Candle Out
Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
Boll Weevil
Bonneville Dam
Booth Shot Lincoln
Born 100,000 Years Ago
Brave Engineer
Brown Eyes
Buffalo Skinners
Cape Cod
The Cat Came Back
Children Go Where I Send Thee
Chilly Winds
The Chisolm Trail
Clickety Clack
Clickety Clack As performed by some well-loved women
Colorado Trail
Columbus Stockade
Crawdad Song
Cryderville Jail
Cumberland Gap
Curly Headed Baby
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DEF
Danville Girl
Danville Girl, No. 2 (With Woody Guthrie)
Dark as A Dungeon
Deportees
Diamond Joe
Do Re Mi
A Dollar Down
Down In The Valley
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
Dust Bowl Refugee
Dying Cowboy
East Texas Red
East Virginia Blues
Erie Canal
Fare Thee Well
Fare Thee Well, Cisco (Tom Paxton)
Farmer's Lament
Fire Down Below
The Fox
Frankie and Johnny
Frog Went A Courtin'
Froggy Went A Courtin' (With Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry)
The Frozen Logger
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GHI
Gettin' Up Holler
Girl in the Wood
Git Along Little Dogies
Glory (With Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry)
Go Tell Aunt Rhody (With Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry)
The Golden Vanity
Grand Coulee Dam
Great American Bum
Great July Jones
Green Lilac Hill
Gypsy Davy
Hard, Ain't It Hard
Hard Travelin'
Haul Away Joe
Hobo Bill
Hobo Blues
Hobo's Lullaby
Hound Dog
Humpty Dumpty
I Ain't Got No Home
I Don't Mind Marrying
I Ride An Old Paint
The Intoxicated Rat
It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down (With Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry)
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JKL
Jack Hammer Blues
Jesus Christ
John Hardy
John Henry
John Henry (With Woody)
The Killer
Ladies Auxiliary
A Picture From Life's Other Side
Little Joe The Wrangler
London Bridge
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MNO
The Midnight Special
Mole in the Ground
Molly Malone
Mulberry Bush
Mule Skinner Blues
Mule Skinner Blues (With Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly)
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
My Daddy
My Gal
Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life
New York Town
Night Herding Song
Old Blue
Old Dan Tucker
Old Howard
Old Lone Wolf
Old Reilly (or Riley...)
Old Smoky
Old Time Religion
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PQR
Passing Through
Pastures of Plenty
Pat Works on the Railway
Peas Porridge Hot
Philadelphia Lawyer
Philadelphia Lawyer (Reno Blues) (With Woody Guthrie)
Pie In The Sky
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Pretty Boy Floyd
Pumpkin Eater
Railroad Bill
Railroad Whistle (With Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry)
The Rambler
The Rambler (From Lonesome Valley)
Rambler (Danville Girl)
Rambling, Gambling Man
Rambling, Gambling Man as Gil Houston
Rambling Round
Ranger's Command
Red River Valley
Ride Old Paint (With Woody Guthrie)
River of Gold (As Gil Huston)
Roamer
Roll On, Columbia
Rose, Rose, I Love You (as Cisco Huston)
Roving Gambler
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STU
Saturday Night (True Love on my Mind)
Ship in the Sky
Sinking of the Reuben James
Sloop John B
So Long, It's Been Good
Soup Song
Sowing On The Mountain (With Woody Guthrie)
St. James Infirmary
Stagolee
Stewball
Stewball (With Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly)
The Strawberry Roan
Streets of Laredo
Sweet Betsy From Pike
Take A Whiff On Me
Take My Hand/Didn't It Rain?
Taking It Easy
Talking Blues
Talking Dust Bowl
Talking Fishing Blues
Talking Guitar Blues
There's A Better World A-Comin'
They Call The Wind Maria (as Gil Huston)
This Land Is My Land
This Train
Three Blind Mice
Tom Joad
Tramp on the Street
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Travel On
Trouble In Mind
Turtle Dove
Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail
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VWXYZ
Venezuela
Waggoner's Lad
Way Out There
What Are Little Boys Made Of?
What Did The Deep Sea Say?
Whose Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (With Woody Guthrie)
Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies (With Woody Guthrie)
Worried Man Blues
Wreck of the Old 97
Yellow Gal
Yonder Tree
Zebra Dun
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Sources
Sources For the traditional songs Cisco performed
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