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  • this is the only video found about the blizzard and a 100 yards from Mary Ann's. thank-you for posting it .

  • I grew to manhood in Wyoming where lethal blizzards would come from nowhere and give you just minutes to reach safety or you would die. I remember this song from my youth. Yes, it's sad, but very, very real.

  • a great song by a great singer

  • you just don't leave an old FREIND to die ALONE!!! AMEN!!!

  • Sorry, this thing kept deleting my reply, then it posted it three times. Geez. Oh well, at least you got an answer:)

  • does anyone have the guitar chords for this classic

  • @padraigog2010 The key I just did it in is C,F,C,G, and there is an A minor for the chorus, then back to G. Basic blues progression, very simple. I play by ear, cannot read music, had this song bagged the first time I tried it. Glad you asked, it just got added to my song list.

  • @padraigog2010 The key I just did it in is C, F, C, G, and the chorus is A minor and G. I play by ear, cant read music and just bagged it the first time.

  • @padraigog2010 C,F,C,G and A minor for the chorus.

  • Thank you for the wonderful song. The text makes you cry

  • I love this sad old song. Very well dond video as well.

  • Spot on

  • I'd like to comment, but I have to go get some hot biscuits in the pan. I'll see if I can round up some butter and honey too.

  • So sad!

  • ive been with my best friend 26 years now shes the best 

  • Love jim's velvety voice & the song- My daughter, being an equestrian, gets SO upset when i play this because horses just shouldn't die!

  • this is easily my favorate jim reeves song. it always brings a tear to my eye

  • Gentleman Jim was a man with a golden voice. He was well liked by both his fans and those he worked with. He sang songs with a story in them, stories of both history and the current times. If there is a choir there in heaven I know that he is singing in it.

  • takes me back years and years,,,when there was poetry in the lyrics,,,themes were simple often noble,,,music had melody and lilt

  • A horse, a horse my girlfriend for a horse!

    (Geez!)

  • Real men never leave their BEST FRIEND!

  • I wore this 45 out. I am so very glad to see it on here! Thanks for posting

  • Man, this song is so sad. Ugh! :( 

  • Gentleman Jim.....thats when ppl could really singggggggggggg

  • great...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

  • love this song 

  • I have loved someone that much once. I screwed it up...wish I could tell her. We got a good kid out of it in spite of me. Damn, damn, damn...wish I could tell her...like the guy in the blizzard...I can get close, but not enough.

  • @spahjrp dont give up ,with a child in the picture you will do what you have to do to get on track. keep working at it and you wont be sorry.

  • This song will always remain fresh in my memory from the first time I heard it nearly 55 years ago!

  • I listen to that song since perhaps 1969 and I just love it more and more. God took him from the air. Bless you all.

  • I would actually have cared more for my Mary-anne than for my horse

  • The late great Chris LeDoux also did a cover of this song...both were fabulous to listen to.

  • I trying not to cry because my son is in the room with me.

  • justt its greattttttttttt

  • a song with a meaning... a voice with restrained emotion, a story that slowly breaks the heart... music that truimphs!

  • I know for a FACT that at least one other country legend recorded this song: Mr. Tex Ritter; that said, I have personally been crying, every single time I hear this song by Jim, and I ain't a single bit ashamed of my tears. They simply flow, like the rain when it arrives. (and, I'm still lookin' for a copy of Tex's version !

  • I've been knocked over ever since I heard this Jim Reeves tune in the late 1950's, and there ain't a single thing in the world that can separate my heartfelt Devastation at this total loss scenario, from the goodness and light that permeates the world. nuff sedd.

  • so sad made me cry my eyes out everytime i hear this ,,,, i cant stop crying its just so sad ::::::( xx

  • makes me cry, every time i hear this song..

  • I had to put down my horse last year. this song really tears me up

  • great songs

  • One of the few singers that sounds as though every word is coming from his heart. Song like the Blizzard have such sincerity you come to believe it is exactly what he would do, (as ANY good cowboy would). Been a LONG time since I heard it, and it still makes me well up.

  • Thanks to the writer and Jim.

    Thanks to Chet , aswell. Together you are a big part of my childhood.

  • Haven't heard this song in 30 years, brilliant

    , thanks for posting.

  • You dorks who think 100 yards in a blizzard is a no-brainer have no freakin' idea what you're talking about. You don't KNOW where things are under these circumstances! As for the horse, waaaaay more important to this guy than your dumb-ass car is to you. YOU DON"T LEAVE YOUR HORSE!

  • @spahjrp Plus, at the start its seven miles, not just 100 yards.

  • @spahjrp  dumb ass ,,,,,it is a damn song,,, where the hell are your ears and I guess God forgot to give you a heart..

  • @tylershoney I have no idea what the hell you are talking about. I LIKE THE SONG, THE MESSAGE, and THE SINGER. Perhaps you can't read?

  • love this song,,reminds me of my nan,,and a great childhood,,and my horses,of course :)

  • In Burl Ives's Version, the guy was 1 mile from Mary Ann when he stopped to rest, and 100 yards from where he was found.... I like Burl's because the guy went a little further.

  • What a voice!

  • @mjdecorations...thank you.Why can't people just listen to the song?Analyze,analyze.

  • Epic. Nothing more needs to be said.

  • He may have returned Home to his Father, but he will forever live on in our hearts. Beautiful voice, meaningful lyrics, haunting melodies sung with so much feeling and emotion. You are the best Jim Reeves.... you always will be the best.

  • If you ever played football, you would know just how far 100 yards is . Wouldn't you, ya stupid shit.

  • @glennhar11 In a 'blinding snowstorm' even a brilliant wannabe football star, like you, wouldn't be able

    to see 100 yards. The closest you ever got to a real football game was at a TV set. Yuk, yuk. Don't ever

    blow your nose - you'll lose whatever brain matter is left in there! ROFLMAO!!!!!! Were you born STUPID or

    do you have to work at it every day of your life? Want some more??

  • In my version of the song - he probably didn't have the foggiest idea of how far

    he was from Maryann when he gave out.  The lyrics only say, "...it's still a hundred

    yards from Maryann" and later, "he was just 100..........".

  • @EarthSteward In Burl Ives' Rendition, they were still a mile away when they decided to stop and rest.

  • nice song))))))))))))))))))))))))lo­ve it

  • douglas787.

    May be he thought there might be a total idiot like you in the house and chose to freeze to death instead, cant blame him for that,( its a song , you sad sad person.)

  • Well I just have to ask, Why freeze to death with the horse when he could just go 100 yards, get some help from the house and go back and get Dan to the barn? Dumb ass cowboys.

  • @douglas787 It's just a song man.

  • I've never been able to hear this song without tears. Even now

  • A sad song but so beautiful! Being a huge fan of Jim Reeves, I'm not sure if I could pick a favourite song, but this is certainly on the list.

  • A sad song but so beautiful! Being a huge fan of Jim Reeves, I'm not sure if I could pick a favourite song, but this is certainly on the list.

  • I love Jims voice !!!

  • fine video...tells the story

  • Heavens to Murgatroid! This song brings back some wonderful memories. The late great Mr Reeves was one of my mom's favorite singers. This moving song was on one of those albums of his she owned & played thru the years, especially back in the 60's when I was a kid. THANK YOU very much for posting it! He was truly a unique talent. His sudden passing was one of American music's greatest tragedies.

  • Just pleased to realize that there are so many of you out there that love this man's music as me. I am Nigerian, and my kids think I am too old-fashioned to love this!

  • Just pleased to realize that there are so many of you out there that love this man's music as me. My kids think I am so old fashioned and so Nigerian to love this!

  • So sad!

  • A very sad, but beautiful song by Jim Reeves. Thanks.

  • I never thought I'd get to hear this song again in my lifetime.

    THANK YOU for this upload!

  • I feel bad for Mary Anne, he loved that horse more than her:(

  • @nas5532 No, he didn't love the horse more. He was so cold his mind was affected, and he'd been leading the horse for so long he was unable to think clearly enough to realize that he could leave the horse, thaw out, and return for Old Dan.

  • @absue Old Dan had probably gone as far as he could,whether he returned for him,or not.When a horse goes down,it's usually over in a short time whether it is winter or summer.But what the ~~,it's still a good song.

  • @crowleysridgegirl Yes, it's a good song, and you are right about the horse. Old Dan was lame and old before the blizzard began, so his chances weren't very good anyway.

    If the man in the song had been thinking clearly, he'd have left Dan when he realized the horse wasn't going to make it. He might even have put a bullet in Dan's brain to end his suffering quickly.

    My earlier comment was in response to someone saying that he loved the horse more than Mary Anne.

  • @absue Yeah,you are right.But,heck,being a true cowboy,he very well COULD have loved his horse more than Mary Ann! LOL

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  • Glad to find this song on U Tube. I wore out my record or it years ago.

  • I hate sad endings! I admire the loyalty portrayed.

  • My dad has this album on vinyl, I pull it out and listen to it when I want to hear real music.

    Does anyone know how to rip a vinyl record to a computer?

  • @SouthernGospelNut : You can buy a USB turntable...

  • oh Lord I had forgotten this wonderful tune and it brought back so many memories/

    thank you for sharing

    diannah

  • Wonderful

  • love this song,great job on the video' thank'sfor posting.there will only ever be one jim reeves, the best.lol.

  • Thank you so much for the upload. Up until recently ITUNES didn't have this track, I broke my vinyl, and was in general fearing I'd never hear this track again :'( . Such wonderful music from when it could actually be called music.

    Blessings from Stephen, New Zealand.

  • Congratulations on this video! Great choice of photos to accompany Jim's evocative vocal. Mr. Reeves manages to pack an entire TV mini-series into two and a half minutes--one of my all-time favourites from that velvet voice.

  • This music takes me back to listening to records with my grandpa.

  • beautiful video great job.

  • Thanks for video.  What a beautiful voice he had. Song is new to me.

  • Katy, That's gotta be 1 of the worlds saddest songs! *****

  • Great song...Great singer....

  • Great choice and selection of photo's to support a great ballad. Thanks for posting.

  • Hey I grew up listening to these songs ,my dad loves this type of music

  • Thank you for this song ...............it makes me think of my Mom and Dad.

  • great song

  • Beautifully sung per usual with Reeves, but if I knew I only had a hundred more yards to go in a blizzard, I think I would have found a way to get myself there and maybe my pony as well, with Maryanne's help.

  • What an awesome song from an awesome singer.....such a smooth velvet voice and a song that paints a picture in the mind.....no one singing on the radio today has a voice like that.....

  • This song touches me deeply for two reason; one because it is so emotional and beautiful song, two because the son of our neigbour died under those circumstances waling in to a dangerous blizzard in the North of Norway, and was found dead in a hut on the mountain.

  • That is the voice and presentation really unforgettable!

  • Every time I see this video I tear up.

  • After listening to Jim roll over to Brook Benton and you're bound to love 'True Confessions'

  • Stand up bass, gentle guitar work, settled voice, simple 2 track recorder and soft 60 per min rhythm ...... straight to the soul! Soothing through all ages. Also the song's theme, about a man's total devotion to his horse that has given his all and struggles along.

  • Great video and song

  • this one is for my mom and dad love u guys cant wait to be w u both

  • i have never heard this before and i have heard most if jims recordings, sitting with a wee tear in my eye all i need is a vodka and am set, cheers for this lovely song.xx

  • This song gave me strength while serving in the army. Past forward is over 30 years and I still enjoy it. Truly timeless song. Thank you Jim.

  • Used to listen to Jim Reeves when my parents were alive. Great voice...

  • This man has the voice of an angel. No matter what he sings, it tugs at the heart strings and the tear ducts.

  • Favoloso!!!

  • Without a doubt,the most perfection of any male vocalist that I've ever heard.clear,pure,deep and heart wringing.

  • Cowboy Nation does a great take of this song ...try to find it well worth it

  • i have loads of Jim reeves records but i have never herd this song,

    excellent song and video i recon you have done him proud putting the two together. :)

  • Don't know why, but this song brought me to tears even as a small child. It's just so sad.

  • Thanks Katty. One of the best songs from one of the best voices ever.

  • Great Job!! Pictures say it all!!

  • wonderful song once again gentleman Jim !!

  • this is lovely~thanx katy~i love jims voice

  • Cool. 

  • One music columnist in the early 1960's described Jim as "an oak among sage grass". There's just something magic about that voice, as Leo Jackson once said.

  • great video this was my moms favorite singer, i love his music

  • Hej Majsan! Om du mot förmodan läser det jag skriver så kommer du ihåg...

    Det blev aldrig vi förevigt..."but I was just a hundred yards from Marieanne" Kram Majsan!!

  • This is quite simply easy listning at it's very best.

  • Jim een van de beste zangers ooit.

    yes , they found him there on the planes,his hand frozen to the frames...

  • A voice so soothing to the ears....great for the young and the old, i'm 32, still a die hard fan of this great singer.....

  • what a voice!!!!!

  • None better than Jim at this style of music.

  • thanks one of the greatest singer ever

  • He said "Was this song from a true story that actually happened that someone wrote a song about it?" I say: Yah, the guy wrote if after he died in "the true" story. Seriously? This was a great ole cowboy song, there were soooooo many.

  • A great singer

  • thanks for posting. i always check this out when i get home from the road and enjoy it . thanks again rick

  • Spinechilling song............do blizzards like this still occur?

  • Johnny Cash did an excellent version of this song, too.

  • Jim the Legend. Thanx for putting this song.

  • all songs J, REEVES it pearls country music- Blizzard it's my favourite, complette spirits country & western

  • i use to listen to this with my nan she died 2008 but i still love this music love to listen to this brings back good memory's

  • Jim lives forever and I pray The Good Lord give him eternal rest and bless the world with more talents.

  • The voice of Jim Reeves carries tremendous power to ease the minds and hearts of people.

  • @MosheFanofJimReeves Well putt i agreee..

  • @MosheFanofJimReeves Better than any blood pressure medicine,

  • @MosheFanofJimReeves Hallo,assistance to the Czech Republic is not free

  • nice song here in the cordilleras,Philippines,we always listen to the songs of Jim Reeves.

  • There were some great singers, and then there was Jim. Jee Whiz. This song put a dagger in my heart.

  • Today, in my part of Nfld. as I listen to one of the best voices ever in country music we have a BLIZZARD. Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, George Jones, and Patsy Cline are my favourite c and w singers and there's dozens of others who are terrific as well.

  • One of my all-time favorites by Gentleman Jim. Thanks for putting beautiful pictures to the song. It comes to life.

  • @charliekucharski I grew up with Jim Reeves  I'm 74 and still love him, what an artist.

  • @remsen100 Wow, your 74 years old and you watch Youtube? I don't even think my grandpa knows how to turn on a computer.  Dude your pretty freaking cool if your an old man who watches Youtube videos!!!

  • @whatsup837 Thanks, appreciate your feedback. Actually I'm still working, I do computer networking and telephone work. I retired from Verizon.

  • @remsen100, both my dad and mom can handle with computers they are both 74

    Amazing u can remsen.

  • @whatsup837, my dad and my mother also can handle this.

    Thet both are 74, amazing but true.

  • @whatsup837, my dad and mom are both 74

    They can handle this too.

    I quess they want to do this kind of thinks

  • @whatsup837 74 is not old. My dad will be 77 and hes in great shape!

  • as i sit here feeling suicidal this song brings the much need tears to me to get it out of my system thanks jim you are a life saver

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  • my mom's name is maryann :) anywayz i love dis song so much, it reminds of me of wen i was younger and my dad wud listen to dis song

  • I like the fact that Harlan Howard wrote this song. Harlan wrote, or helped many of country music's classic songs. It sucks that Jim's career ended before it really took off, and this song is "Gentleman" Jim Reeves at his saddest best. RIP Jim!

  • nah - alcoholism ...then suicide 1

  • woah thats really sad :(

  • Listen to Camera Obscura's version,they are a Scottish band, it was released as their Christmas Song in 2009. Worth listening to.

  • reminds me of being a small girl, staying with my grandparents while my mom maryann was sick. Crying in grandpa's arms as this song played. Now Mom is gone and for some strange reason i find comfort in this song.

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  • Yeah, and I'm stuck in Va., snow up to my gd ying-yang, pretty? yes! but damn, I wish I were inn Calif!!!!!!!!!!!

  • YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!!!

  • Gosh I forgot how good he sounded. Sad song.

  • Just fabulous song...

    This song reminds me about the son to hour neigbours, who walked across a wintry mountain to catch the ship on the other side, but he never got there - he died of the cold.

    And he was a worshipper of Jim Revees

  • This one of my favorite of Jim,He was only here for a short time just think where he could have gone with his music if he had lived in todays world.I grew up listening to his music.Sugarbear286

  • A beautiful song, Katy, and nice video.

    Gracias !

  • Been there, done that. This hits home in a big way.

  • i always  cry when i hear this song..

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  • My Pawpaw Used to sing this song we called it the meme song our grandmother name is marian . he use to love to play for us we lost him back in feb yesterday my meme passed she truly couldn't live with out him !!!!! they will be missed

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  • Still makes my eyes water after nearly 50 years!

  • Jim was a tallent that no one has ever been able to imitate. He left a void in our music culture. I listened to him all through school, and cried when he died in 1964. Much of his music can still bring a tear. I look forward to seeing him again on the other side.

  • We played this with the band years ago. Can't ever forget it.