"Rose of Cimarron" is a song by country rock band Poco being the title cut of their 1976 album release Rose of Cimarron: written by founding member Rusty Young, the song featured lead vocals by Paul Cotton and Timothy B. Schmit.
The Roy Rogers album never reached fruition but Young's bandmates, Paul Cotton and Timothy B. Schmit heard "Rose of Cimarron" and wanted Poco to record it.
[2] Issued as a single in October 1976 - the 6:42 album track being edited to 3:14 - "Rose of Cimarron" reached #94 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"[4] The German duo Hoffmann & Hoffmann made their recording debut with a German language rendering which despite retaining the title of the original English-language song eschews Young's frontier scenario instead relating how a suicidal Luftwaffe pilot flies over the ocean until his plane runs out of fuel and plummets: this version is subtitled "Trag Mich Zu Den Sternen".
In 2017, Rusty Young recorded "Rose of Cimarron" as a duet with female vocalist Chelsea Williams which track - recorded at the Cash Cabin studio in Hendersonville TN[7] - augments Young's original composition with additional lyrics and a new musical section.