Talk:Streets of Laredo (song)

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[edit] What's a dradonotuse-house?

On the IMDb Brokeback Mountain discussion thread, we've been discussing a version that goes:

As I walked out in the Streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day,
I spied a young cowboy, all wrapped in white linen
wrapped up 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 slowly walked by.
Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story,
For I'm shot in the breast, and I'm dying today.
Twas once in the saddle I used to go dashing,
Twas once in the saddle I used to go gay.
First to the dradonotuse-house, and then to the card-house,
Got shot in the breast, and I'm dying today.
Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
And play the dead march as you carry me along;
Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod oer me,
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.
Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin,
Get six pretty maidens to bear up my pall.
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin,
Roses to deaden the sods as they fall.
Then swing your rope slowly and rattle your spurs lowly,
And give a wild whoop as you carry me along;
And in the grave throw me and roll the sod o'er me.
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.
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 round up - the cowboy was dead.
We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
And bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade, so brave, young and handsome,
We all loved our comrade, although he'd done wrong.

In v3, what is a dradonotuse-house? From the context it might be a bordello. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hugh7 (talk • contribs) 00:34, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Looks like the site bowdlerised the relevant lyric. Can you link to the particular discussion on the boards - there are too many to trawl through. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VinceBowdren (talk • contribs) 14:02, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I have seen this listed as dram-house, also spelled draugham house, a place where you can buy "shots" of whiskey. I have seem this rendered as "first to the dram house and then to the whorehouse". Theis is the same dram as in "Darling Corey", with a dram glass in her hand. Try looking up fluid dram.Pustelnik 22:02, 1 December 2007 (UTC) See Dram (unit) (also spelled drachm) or Dram Shop. Pustelnik 22:11, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Other version"

Why do we have a discussion of "other versions" here, complete with nearly full lyrics, without presenting the lyrics of the original song anywhere? john k (talk) 20:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)