Red river rock - Johnny and the Hurricanes - cover by Dave Monk

Red River Rock is the title of a well-known instrumental performed by Johnny and the Hurricanes in 1959, which had already appeared commercially for the first time in 1925 as a cowboy love song.
The story goes back even further than in 1925. The Canadian folklorist Edith Fowke assumes that the song was known before 1896 in at least five Canadian provinces. The vocal music arose from the lost love of an Indian woman to a British soldier during the Red River rebellion from November 1869 in the former Ruperts country.
The text about the love affair later changed to a relationship between a teacher and a cowboy. The oldest well-known manuscript under the title Red River Valley carries the numbers 1879 ( Nemaha) and 1885 ( Harlan ). Of the two US rivers named Red River , the Red River of the North is meant. Under the title In the Bright Mohawk Valley , the song appeared with the author James J. Kerrigan in New York, copyrighted on June 4, 1896, and sung by John W. Rice. This version released Carl Sandburg in 1927 in his American songbag.
Here is my version. I hope you like it.
Dave
p.s. The backing track from John Alex is available here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT8Y7u198aU

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