Ghost Riders in the Sky

The song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" was written by Stan Jones in 1948 and 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. The story has been linked with old European myths of the Wild Hunt and the Dutch/Flemish legend of the Buckriders. Jones claimed to have been told the story by an old Native American when he was 12 years old, who believed that souls become spirits in the sky after vacating their physical bodies. The song has been recorded by hundreds of performers, with Vaughn Monroe's version reaching number 1 in Billboard magazine in 1949.learn more on wikipedia