Flashback Friday: Prairie Fire

 

 

"A hot south wind was blowin' and the air was gettin' dry
Somethin' far away was spellin' trouble in the sky
Comin' closer was a sound that topped the devil's choir,
Then we knew we had to race a raging prairie fire..." 

  

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 Released in July, 1960  "Prairie Fire" one of the songs performed by the great American
 country-western balladeer Marty Robbins for his studio album, "More Gunfighter Ballads 
And Trail Songs" exudes the courage and true grit of the American spirit in the wake of
a natural disaster, the "wild, infernal roar" of a wildfire raging across the
 Great Plains of the western frontier.

 

Prairie Fire
(1960)
Marty Robbins