Hedli Anderson sang the poem. The song is a featured motif in John Irving's 14th Novel 'Avenue of Mysteries'. The good gringo "el gringo bueno" sings the song incessantly, even in his sleep. The band from Circo de La Maravilla plays the song at Lupe's funeral. White Noise by Don DeLillo features protagonist Jack Gladney’s son Heinrich “moodily” singing the song in one of the last chapters. The lyric "For I Am a Cowboy and Know I've Done Wrong" is cited as the title of one of the songs sung "every Saturday night" on the prairie in Nebraska in the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather. Other versions The Kingston Trio performed this comedy version as "Laredo?" on their 1961 album College Concert: As I walked down in the streets of Laredo. As I walked down in Laredo one day, I spied a young cowboy dressed in white linen, Dressed in white linen and cold as the clay. "I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy." "You can see by my outfit I'm a cowboy too." "You can see by our outfits that we are both cowboys." "Get yourself an outfit, and be a cowboy too." The Smothers Brothers performed a similar comedy version on their 1962 album The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers. Peter S. Beagle's travelogue "I See By My Outfit" takes its name from this version of the song; in the book, he and his friend Phil refer to it as their "theme song." Allan Sherman also performed a parody of the song; his version was titled "Streets of Miami", and was about vacationing Manhattan lawyers. Garrison Keillor's album Songs of the Cat has a feline-themed parody, "As I Walked Out". Marty Robbins' 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs features his hit "El Paso", similar in form and content to "Streets of Laredo". The 1960 follow-up More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs has a version of the original. Doc Watson's version, St. James Hospital, combines some of the "cowboy" lyrics with a tune resembling St. James Infirmary and lyrics drawn from that song, and contains the unmistakable "bang the drum slowly" verse. New Mexican satirist Jim Terr's parody, "Santa Fe Cowboy," "is about the kind of cowboys who wear Gucci hats and spurs by Yves St. Laurent." A portion of "Streets of Laredo" was sung by a group of cowboys in Season