From Chris Adams@christoff.adams@gmail.com to rec.music.folk on Fri Oct 21 02:27:53 2022
From Newsgroup: rec.music.folk
The lyrics you posted are from Streets of Laredo also called The Cowboys Lament.
Eric Bogle wrote(I think, not sure about that) a song called Green Fields of France about a young fallen and buried soldier called William McBride that uses a similar refrain.
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