The Outlaws - (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - YouTube The song tells a folk tale of a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, steel-hooved cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the spirits of damned cowboys
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend - Wikipedia The song tells a folk tale of a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, steel-hooved cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the spirits of damned cowboys
Ghost Riders in the Sky: About the Song - Ballad of America “Ghost Riders in the Sky” was written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones The song is a cautionary tale warning a cowboy that if he doesn’t change his ways, he will one day join the damned cowboys doomed to try to “catch the Devil’s herd across these endless skies ”
Ghost Riders in the Sky: The Highwaymen’s Legendary Cowboy . . . Its eerie tale of ghost riders, forever chasing redemption in the skies, echoes themes of the lone Western figure—a person bound by their choices, riding through life with consequences ever close behind