Saturday, February 25, 2012

Johnny Cash: The Ballad of Ira Hayes

Last Saturday I promised an Arizona-linked post for this week's musical selection. The Michigan and Arizona presidential primaries will be held on Tuesday. So from Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road"--which is about Detroit, we arrive in the Grand Canyon State and Ira Hayes. Johnny Cash, who would turn 80 tomorrow if he was still with us, sings Peter LaFarge's "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" in front of a Native American audience.

Hayes, a Pima Indian and an Arizonan, was one of the flag-raisers in the iconic Iwo Jima photograph. In the film, Flags of our Fathers, Adam Beach portrays the troubled Marine.


Thanks for your service, Ira--and an early Happy Birthday to Johnny!

Related posts:

My Mississippi Manifest Destiny: Johnny Cash's boyhood home
Dire Straits: Telegraph Road
Video: Johnny Cash sings about the Civil War
Johnny Cash: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Johnny Cash on the 1937 Mississippi River Flood: Five Feet High and Rising
Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell: Girl from the North Country
Arlo Guthrie and Johnny Cash: Alice's Restaurant
Johnny Cash and June Carter: Jackson
Johnny Cash: Hurt
Johnny Cash: The Big Light
Johnny Cash - Ballad Of John Henry's Hammer
Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson: Sunday Morning Coming Down
Johnny Cash: Without Love


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