ATF: Ethereal Echoes

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Outlaws]

Ghost Riders in the Sky

Outlaws

An old cowboy went ridin' out

One dark and windy day

Upon a ridge he rested

As he went along his way

When all at once a mighty herd

Of red-eyed steers he saw

Plowing through the ragged skies

And up a cloudy draw

Their brands were still on fire

And their hoofs were made of steel

Their horns were back and shiny

And their hot breath he could feel

A bolt of fear went through him

As they thundered through the sky

He saw the riders coming hard

And he heard their mournful cry

Yippy I ay

Yippy I oh

Ghost riders in

Ghost riders in the sky

Yippy I ay

Yippy I ay

Yippy I oh

Yippy I oh

Ghost riders in

The Sky

Their faces gaunt their eyes were blurred

And their shirts all soaked with sweat

They're ridin' hard to catch that herd

But they ain't caught 'em yet

'Cause they've got to ride forever

On the range up in the sky

On horses snorting fire

As they ride on hear them cry

Yippy I ay

Yippy I oh

Ghost riders in

Ghost riders in the sky

Ghost riders in

The sky

Link: [The Highwaymen]

Highwayman

The Highwaymen

I was a highwayman

Along the coach roads I did ride

Sword and pistol by my side

Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade

Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade

The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five

But I am still alive

I was a sailor

I was born upon the tide

With the sea I did abide

I sailed a schooner 'round the Horn to Mexico

I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow

And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed

But I am livin' still

I was a dam builder

Across a river deep and wide

Where steel and water did collide

A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado

I slipped and fell on the wet concrete below

They buried me in that gray tomb that knows no sound

But I am still around

I'll always be around

And around

And around

And around

And around

I'll fly a starship

Across the universe divide

And when I reach the other side

I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can

Perhaps I may become a highwayman again

Or I may simply be a single drop of rain

But I will remain

And I'll be back again

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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