Album This song officially appears on the Wide Prairie Official album.
Timeline This song was officially released in 1998
This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:
March 1998
Mar 07, 1998
McCartneys still making sweet music
Nov 19, 1998 • From USA Today
From Wide Prairie liner notes:
The melody was one that Linda wrote many years ago and would use as a practice piece when playing piano. Her love of native American history, and in particular the Nez Perce Indians and their Appaloosa horses [named after The Palouse river] inspired this song which we recorded in March 1998.
She was drawn to the story of the Nez Perce’s near escape from the American cavalry [they were chased to the U.S. border and massacred].
Linda herself rode a magnificent Appaloosa stallion named Blankit who was bred on our farm.
Chief Joseph and his tribe bred beautiful horses
On the banks of the Paloose River
The breed became known as the Appaloosa
Appaloosa stallion run so fast
Gallop through the canyon through the past
Lead your tribe to safety show the way
Cavalry gets closer every day
Once you ran through peaceful fields of grass
Once you drank from rivers clear and fast
Life for you was easy, full of love
Sleep beneath the yellow moon above
Then the foreign soldiers came from far across the sea
Stealing all the tribal land that once had been so free
Starving people that you love are crawling through the snow
Will they get across the border, heaven only knows
Appaloosa stallion run so fast
Gallop through the canyon through the past
Lead your tribe to safety show the way
Cavalry gets closer every day
Appaloosa stallion run so fast
Gallop through the canyon through the past
Lead your tribe to safety show the way
But the foreign soldiers came to stay
Then the foreign soldiers came from far across the sea
Stealing all the tribal land that once had been so free
Starving people that you love are crawling through the snow
Will they get across the border, heaven only knows
Appaloosa stallion run so fast
Gallop through the canyon through the past
Lead your tribe to safety show the way
But the foreign soldiers came to stay
Official album • Released in 1998
4:44 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Clarinet, Drums, Electric guitar, Hofner bass, Producer, Wurlitzer Linda Eastman / McCartney : Lead vocal Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Keith Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording: Mar 07, 1998 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Session Orchestra overdubs: Jan 29, 1992
Official album • Released in 2019
4:44 • Studio version • A2019 • 2019 remaster
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Clarinet, Drums, Electric guitar, Hofner bass, Producer, Wurlitzer Linda Eastman / McCartney : Lead vocal Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Keith Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording: Mar 07, 1998 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Session Orchestra overdubs: Jan 29, 1992
Complete Flaming Pie - Sessions & Beyond (1997-1998)
Unofficial album
1:44 • Alternate take • Movement 1
Complete Flaming Pie - Sessions & Beyond (1997-1998)
Unofficial album
1:14 • Alternate take • Movement 2
Complete Flaming Pie - Sessions & Beyond (1997-1998)
Unofficial album
0:53 • Alternate take • Movement 3
Flaming Pie - Ultimate Archive Collection
Unofficial album • Released in 2016
4:44 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Clarinet, Drums, Electric guitar, Hofner bass, Producer, Wurlitzer Linda Eastman / McCartney : Lead vocal Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Keith Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording: Mar 07, 1998 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Session Orchestra overdubs: Jan 29, 1992
Album Wide Prairie
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.
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