Artist: Tex Ritter
Author: traditional
Label: Conqueror
Year: 1933
As A-Riding Old Paint. Collected and published by Carl Sandburg in American Songbag (1927). Aaron Copland used the melody line in his ballet suite Rodeo ('42).
Covers:
Patsy Montana [as Ridin' Old Paint]
Burl Ives [as Old Paint]
Weavers [as Old Paint (Ride Around Little Dogies)]
Harry Belafonte [as My Old Paint]
Loudon Wainwright III [as Old Paint on Album II]
Townes Van Zandt [released on Sunshine Boy - The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972]
Linda Ronstadt [as Old Paint]
Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell [as Old Paint]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)