.written by Larry Joe Cashen & Floyd Parton..into the badlands and the wild wild west as you ride across the badlands with the Del Rio Durango. Wild women and song highlight the journey of this 0utlaw as he searches for freedom into the desert land of Arizona and trying to make it to Mexico. A wanted man from Tennessee during the civil war riding the ghost highway with johnny law close on his tail...Song performed by Larry Joe Cashen...wrote for a western movie. This is the long version of the song.