"Cowboy's Dream", also known as "Sweet By-and-By Revised" or "The Cowboy's Sweet By and By" is an American song, set to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" or, sometimes, "Red River Valley". It appears in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs & Other Frontier Ballads (1922) and John and Alan Lomax's Folk Song U.S.A. (1947). They attribute the knowledge of the song in Texas to revival preacher Reverend Abe Mulkey who held revival meeting for cowboys coming off the trail. According to the informants, after the sermon, Mulkey would sing this song as a sort of altar call. inviting them to come forward to the "mourner's bench" to repent and accept forgiveness. Contributors of the verses are mostly unknown but Lomaxes source J. P. Skinner of Athens, Texas rote to them that "Charlie Hart of Carrolton, Mississippi" wrote the first verses of the song. Other sources are named as Dominick J. O'Malley (1867-1943) and Will Croft Barnes (1858-1936). It appears in The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection at Missouri State. It was published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1895 as "The Stampede on the Turkey Track Range". It was recorded by Roy Rogers and The Sons of the Pioneers, Eddy Arnold, Carl T. Sprague, Jimmy C. Newman and others.