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The song is about a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, fire-breathing cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the ghosts of damned cowboys. One warns him that if he does not change his ways he will be doomed to join 
them, forever "trying to catch the 
Devil's herd across the endless skies." 

More than fifty different artists have recorded versions of this classic. Charting versions were recorded by Vaughn Monroe, Bing Crosby, and by Burl Ives. 

The story:
An impressionable 12 year-old boy rode to the top of an Arizona hill one afternoon with an old cowboy friend to 
check a windmill. A big storm was building and they 
needed to lock the blades down before the wind hit. 
When finished, they paused to watch the clouds 
darken and spread across the sky. 

As lightning flashed, the old cowboy told the boy to watch closely and he would see the devil's herd.  Their eyes red 
and hooves flashing, would stampede ahead of phantom horsemen. The old cowboy warned the youth that if he 
didn't watch himself, he would someday be up there 
with them, chasing steers for all eternity. 

The terrified boy jumped on his horse and 
took off for the the safety of home. 

Years later, he recalled that scary, dark afternoon. 
On his 34th birthday, 1948, Stan Jones sat outside 
his Death Valley home and wrote 
"Ghost Riders In The Sky."