Western music (North America)
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Western music originated as a form of American folk music. It was originally composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Directly related musically to old English, Scottish, and Irish folk ballads, Western music celebrates the life of the cowboy on the open ranges and prairies of Western North America.
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List of Western songs
- Abilene
- Along the Navaho Trail
- Along the Santa Fe Trail
- Back in the Saddle Again
- Ballad of the Alamo
- The theme song to Bonanza
- Buenas Tardes Amigo
- Big Iron
- Billy the Kid
- Blue Shadows on the Trail
- Blue Prairie
- Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?)
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
- Call of the Canyon
- Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie
- Cattle Call
- Cheyenne
- Cimarron (Roll On)
- Cocaine Blues
- Cool Water
- The Cowboy's Life
- Oh My Darling, Clementine
- Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Don't Fence Me In
- Don't Take Your Guns to Town
- El Paso
- El Paso City
- Folsom Prison Blues
- "Ghee on My Hands"
- Git Along, Little Dogies
- Halfway to Montana
- Happy Trails
- Hold on Little Dogies
- Hold On
- Home on the Range
- I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)
- I Ride an Old Paint
- I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart
- Jim, a lament about a cowboy whose friend has died at an early age<ref name=gryder>Greg Ryder, "Blue Shadows", Frontier Records of Durango, Colorado, 1994</ref>
- Jingle Jangle Jingle (I Got Spurs)
- Little Joe the Wrangler
- The Last Roundup
- The Lone Star Trail
- "Man Walks Among Us"
- The Masters Call
- Night Rider's Lament
- Oh! Susanna
- The Old Chisholm Trail
- Pistol Packin' Mama
- Red River Valley
- Red Wing
- Running Gun
- Ghost Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
- "Rocky Mountain Express"
- Rogue River Valley
- San Antonio Rose
- Sioux City Sue
- Song of the Sierras
- The Soughrty Peaks
- Strawberry Roan
- Streets Of Laredo (The Cowboy's Lament)
- Sweet Betsy from Pike
- Texas Plains
- "Texas Rangers", about an ill-fated unit of Texas Rangers, headed to the Rio Grande, whose "time had come to die"
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- Utah Carol
- Way out There
- The Wayward Wind
- When the Cactus Is in Bloom
- The Yellow Rose of Texas
- "Young Wesley"
- Zebra Dun
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List of Western singers
- Bill Barwick
- Bob Nolan
- Chris LeDoux
- Corb Lund
- Don Edwards
- Frankie Laine
- Gene Autry
- Girls of the Golden West
- Greg Ryder
- Ian Tyson
- Jim WilsonTemplate:Disambiguation needed
- Jimmy Wakely
- Joe Bethancourt
- John I. White
- Johnny Bond
- Johnny Cash
- Johnny Western
- Juni Fisher
- Lorne Greene
- Lynn Anderson
- Marty Robbins
- Michael Martin Murphey
- Patsy Montana
- Ray Whitley
- Riders in the Sky
- Roy Rogers
- Slim Whitman
- Sons of the Pioneers
- Sons of the San Joaquin
- Sourdough Slim
- Tex Ritter
- The Quebe Sisters Band *also plays Western Swing music
- Tim Spencer
- Tommy Duncan
- Wilf Carter
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