Pete Knight's Last Ride

DESCRIPTION: The singer reports "My whole life's full of heartaches and sighs... For I've just lost a pal, like a brother to me...." Expert rider Pete Knight falls and dies; the singer hopes to meet him "on that heavenly range"
AUTHOR: Wilf Carter
EARLIEST DATE: 1939
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse injury death
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1937 - Death of Pete Knight
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Ohrlin-HellBoundTrain 33, "Pete Knight's Last Ride" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Darrell Knight, _Pete Knight the Cowboy King_, Detselig Enterprises, 2004, p. 183, "Pete Knight's Last Ride" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Pete Knight"
cf. "Pete Knight, The King of the Cowboys"
NOTES [43 words]: For the history of Pete Knight, see "Pete Knight." According to Darrell Knight, Pete Knight the Cowboy King, Detselig Enterprises, 2004, pp. 171-172. this was less popular than Wilf Carter's big song about Knight, "Pete Knight, the King of the Cowboys." - RBW
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File: Ohr033

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