There's a Picture On Pinto's Bridle

DESCRIPTION: Cowboy finds a fallen horse with a broken leg and a dying boy. With his dying breath the boy asks the singer to save the horse, which has a picture of the boy's dead mother in his bridle.
AUTHOR: Hank Snow (source: notes to ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Hank Snow recording)
KEYWORDS: request death dying injury horse father mother youth cowboy
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #8038
RECORDINGS:
Denis Nash, "Pinto" (on ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
Hank Snow, "There's a Picture On Pinto's Bridle" (Bluebird B-4655, 1939)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Pinto
File: RcTaPoPB

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