THE NIGHT THE HIGHWAYMEN CALLED THE GHOSTS BACK FROM THE SKY.Then came that line — the one that froze every soul in the room. “An old cowboy went ridin’ out one dark and windy day…” Cash’s voice rolled through the hall like thunder over open plains. Every word carried the weight of a warning. “When all at once a mighty herd of red-eyed cows he saw…” Willie’s eyes closed as if he could see them — the ghostly stampede tearing across the sky, sparks flying from steel hooves. Kris’s voice joined in, low and reverent: “Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat…” And Waylon answered like an echo from the grave: “Yippie yi ohhh, yippie yi yaaay… ghost riders in the sky.” The crowd didn’t sing along — they listened in silence. Because for a moment, it felt like the song wasn’t about ghosts at all… It was about us — and the storms we can never outrun.
THE NIGHT THE HIGHWAYMEN CALLED THE GHOSTS BACK FROM THE SKY. They called themselves The Highwaymen, but that night —…