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Fun Autry Fact:

When he was a young man, Gene received an offer from a professional baseball team to become a player. Gene turned down the offer because it would have meant a fifty-dollar-a-month pay cut from his telegrapher's job.

Watch a Gene Autry Video Clip

Poncho's Widow
from Goldtown Ghost Riders (1953)


Singing Cowboy Gene Autry and his sidekick Smiley Burnette sing "Poncho's Widow" from the 1953 Columbia Pictures feature film Goldtown Ghost Riders.

Written by Ned Washington and Sam H. Stept
Published by Irving Berlin

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