You got off "Scott - free" on this one! Nicely done, pardner. ;D

In the dark of the night at High Noon he gunned down 10 Dalton Boys and the horses they rode in on. Without reloading his six-shooter.

Dumb dumb dead Irving was no match for Randolf.

2Eagle stole my comment! I always think of the Irving song when I hear about Irving Texas. Anyway, stellar parody about a stellar gunslinger!

Eagle and Phil - blessings to you! I thought I was the only living person who knew Frank Gallup's Legend of Irving! ;D

Excellent, and 5s. Great first parody, quozaxx. (I think that was your first, I've been here for most of this site's existence, for better or worse, and I haven't seen any other parodies under your name, so I'm going by that. :-) )
BR> OMR: I know that song too. It's one of my favorite non-parody novelty songs, often played on Dr. Demento.

My father sung this exact song to me many times when i was a young girl and told me he wrote it! I'm 47 and it was way before the internet. Wether my father wrote this or not I can't say but it was definitely not written recently or by quoaxx...

I am 67. US Army 1965-1995. In 1955 or '56 I was a participant in a school community Christmas play at Nickerson, Nebraska. A skit we performed, choreographed by our music teacher, was "Randolph the Two-Gun Cowboy". Tommy Strong was Randolph and some of us were poker players. Tommy walked around on the saloon set twirling his shiny guns. The lyrics we sang are what I believe to be the earliest version. I researched this song in 2009 in order to give credit for a book I was writing. I found nothing that came even remotely close to '55 or '56. This is what we performed: "Randolph the two gun cowboy / Had two very shiny guns / And if you ever saw them / You would turn around and run / All if the other cowboys / Used to laugh and call him names / They never let poor Randolph / Join in any poker games / Then one foggy Friday night / The sheriff came to say / Randolph with your guns so bright / Won't you guide my posse tonight / Then how the cowboys loved him / As they shouted off with glee / Randolph the two gun cowboy / You'll go down in history!" I doubt if the author of the original will ever be known, but this version was performed before an appreciative audience during a Christmas play in a rural mid-west community. Sergeant Major David Carden, US Army (Retired) sergeantmajordavidcarden@gmail.com

I remember the song that Sargeant Major Carden refers to. I sang it in the early fifties. Have no idea where I first heard it.Enjoyed your version.

My sister's grade school class in the 1960s in Long Island City, Queens, NY sang a very similar song for a Christmas talent show; however, your version does have some significant (original?) differences.

This is similar to the version that we sang in Hemingford, Nebraska in the 1950s. Our version: Randolph the two gun cowboy/ add two very shiny guns/ and if you ever saw him/ you would even turn and run./ all of the other Cowboys/ used to laugh and call him names/ they wouldn’t let poor Randolph/ join in any poker games./ then one foggy Christmas Eve the sheriff came to say/ Randolph, with your guns so bright, won’t you shoot my wife tonight?/ then all the cowgirls loved him as they shouted out with glee./ Randolph the two gun cowboy, come and have a beer with me.