DESCRIPTION:
Written by Larry Murray and recorded by Tommy Cash. Released as a single from the album "Six White Horses" in 1969. It reached #4 on the Billboard country charts and #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. It made it all the way to #1 on RPM Magazine's Canadian country chart.
The "six white horses" refer to a funeral procession, specifically those belonging to John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. As a result, the song has been called a country version of "Abraham, Martin and John", Dion's famous elegy to the Kennedys and King (and Abraham Lincoln), which also came out in 1969.