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Originals
My Rifle, My Pony, and Me (covered by Dean Wareham)
Just because I just came across a sweet clip of Dean playing My Rifle, My Pony, and Me live from home back in 2018 I thought I’d revive the Originals series…
The tune was originally used in the great film Red River in 1948 - the film was directed by Howard Hawks and starred John Wayne and Walter Brennan - it was then revived for the even better 1959 western Rio Bravo - this film was also directed by Howard Hawks and it too starred John Wayne and Walter Brennan! But, since it also starred two singers, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, it was given some words for them to sing.
… as a bonus that video also has Ricky singing Cindy from the film.
Dean recorded My Rifle, My Pony and Me for the lovely Dean Wareham vs Cheval Sombre album of “cowboy tunes” but here he is playing it for Facebook back in October 2018:
He also played it on Instagram during lockdown, sitting on his bed:
Apologies for the poor quality of this one, it was grabbed quickly with a screen recorder rather than downloaded properly!