Cowboy Songs:

1. One of the cowboys in the illustration is playing a guitar. Cowboys had some time to relax at the end of a long day on the trail. As they sat around the campfire, they sang songs about their life on the range.
2. Learn the lyrics to some famous cowboy songs at the following links:
   
   www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/five/songs.htm
   www.thewildwest.org/interface/index.php?action=416
3. Ask students to write their own cowboy song or poem.

Standards: NA-M.K-4.1 Singing, Alone and with Others, a Varied Repertoire of Music; NA-M.K-4.9 Understanding Music in Relation to History and Culture