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Okay, now if you know any of this stuff, you are really showing your age, but I sure hope someone out there remembers these shows-

How many of you remember tuning into a different Western every night of the week? Not stuff like Gunsmoke or Bonanza. I could never get into those. I loved shows like Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel, Jim Bowie, Bat Masterson, Twenty Six men-any of those ring a bell?

While they were all spread out across different networks and in syndication, they all shared a great common trait-a manly opening ballad for the theme song. I used to play out on the swingset in our backyard and sing those songs to myself for what felt like hours sometimes-and to this day I remember the lyrics to all of them. Gotta love Johnny Western's Ballad of Palladin, for instance:

"Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.

His fast gun for hire head's the calling wind.
A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.

Paladin, Paladin
Where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin,
Far, far from home."

Anyone got any others?