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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Peter LaFarge
Author: Peter LaFarge
Label: Columbia
Year: 1962
On lp Ira Hayes And Other Ballads. Nargaset Indian, rodeo rider, boxer, actor, painter, chanachee, poet, novelist, singer-songwriter and out and out advocate for Native American rights. He cut a new version in '65 for Folkways album On The Warpath. (see also: Drums)
Covers:
Pete Seeger [as Ira Hayes]
Johnny Cash [n°3 C&W]
Townes Van Zandt [at Carnegie Hall; sometimes regarded as of Native American origin]
Bob Dylan [and in '75 in Tuscarora Reservation during the Rolling Thunder Revue]
Ira Hayes was the American Pima Indian who helped raise the flag on Iwo Jima, immortalized in the famous picture (by Joe Rosenthal), model of a monumental bronze on Arlington National Cemetery. He came back as a hero, even co-starred in a few Hollywood films along with John Wayne, but when the attention wained, the drinking began and he ended up in the gutter.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)