Cowboy Christmas #3

Hello my friends and welcome to this blog's last edition of Cowboy Christmas for this year. 

The reason for the season is Jesus. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans remind us of this with Remember Whose Birthday/ Happy Birthday Gentle Savoir from their 1967 album, Christmas Gentle Savior. Next is one of my favorite Christmas songs with Roger Miller singing Old Toy Trains. This is followed by Waylon Jennings' recording of O Come All Ye Faithful. This version is more proof that Waylon had one of the finest voices in all of music. On December 24, 1949, Gene Autry did a special Christmas episode of his Melody Ranch radio show. This episode closed with Gene singing a lovely version of the Christmas classic Silent Night. I would argue that Gene delivered one of the finest performances of this song here. Nothing says Christmas more than bluegrass, so up next is the one and only Bill Monroe with his 1951 recording of Christmas Time's a Coming. This is as toe tapping fun as Christmas music gets. Now if Christmas bluegrass wasn't enough for you what about a Christmas polka. Who better to sing this than the movie cowboy and country singer Tex Ritter? So enjoy Tex's 1950 recording of Merry Christmas Polka. Next is Ernest Tubb's 1949 recording of Blue Christmas. This was a very new Christmas song at this time as the song premiered just a year earlier being sung by Doye O'Dell. My musical selection ends with Johnny Cash's 1992 recording of What Child Is This. The Carter Family is providing the background vocals for this lovely version of a classic Christmas carol. 
























For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. Matthew 1:21

Thanks for joining me and Merry Christmas. Happy Trails to you until we meet again.


-Michael J. Ruhland