| American Remains | |
| Cover: | AmericanRemains.jpg |
| Caption: | 1990 single cover, b/w 'Texas' |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Highwaymen |
| Album: | Highwayman 2 |
| A-Side: | "Silver Stallion", "Texas" |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 4:06 |
| Label: | Columbia 38-73233, 38-73572 |
| Producer: | Chips Moman |
"American Remains" is a song written by Rivers Rutherford and originally recorded by the Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson)[1] for their 1990 album Highwaymen 2. The song follows the stories of 4 historically fictional men (a shotgun rider for the fictional "San Jacinto Line", a card shark, a Midwest farmer, and a Cherokee American Indian) in a similar vein to their cover of "Highwayman".[2] Unlike in Highwayman, however, none of the characters are implied dead; their legacies are instead emphasized.
The song was chosen as the fifth track of the album[3] and as a flip side to the lead single from it ("Silver Stallion" / "American Remains", Columbia 38-73233).[4]