Cowboy songs

New songs

Another cowboy song, about a lone rider out on the peaceful trail.

Night Is Closing In

Cowboy Troubadour (from a poem by Ken Howry)

This is a poem by wonderful cowboy poet Ken Howry, put to a melody by me.

Do You Think About Wyoming? (KEN HOWRY POEM set to music)

Dark Is My Friend

I owe this song to my son, Clay Jonas, who wrote the first half as a poem and gave me permission to make it into a song. This is song #201 for me--quite a milestone.

Adios, My Arizona

To those who will enjoy it most, this song hardly needs any introduction. The only thing I can say is that this is a very old, "extended version" of the song, from the 1800s.

Oh Shenandoah

A song written originally for my 2005-2006 novels, Disciples of the Wind and Reapers of the Wind, the tale of Jacob West's little lost Cajun love.

BELLE OF THE BAYOU

The story of my own life, looking back at all the sometimes reckless and often "heroic" things I used to do, both for fun and for a living.

I USED TO DO THAT

One cowboy's view of the first snow falling on Haystack Mountain, not far from Pocatello, Idaho. One of my few Christmas songs, praying for snow to cover Haystack Mountain at Christmas.

Snow on the Haystack

KAW-LIGA

Old cowboys dream about their last horizon, and what awaits them on the "other side".

STREETS OF GOLD (My Final Roundup)

Former cop, retired city firefighter, author of forty novels, recording artist of 213 songs ... so far. I have a long way yet to go!

STREETS OF GOLD (My Final Roundup)

Kirby Jonas