"Red River Valley" was first recorded as "Cowboy Love Song" in 1925 by Carl T. Sprague, one of the first cowboy singers from Texas. The biggest hit of the cowboy version was the 1927 version by Hugh Cross and Riley Puckett.

/ˌred ˌrɪvər ˈvæli/ ​a traditional US song, sung especially by cowboys. It is about a man who is told that the woman he loves is going to move away. It begins with the line 'From this valley they say you are going' and ends: “Come and sit by my side, if you love me.Do not hasten to bid me adieu.

The Red River Valley as it exists today emerged from receding glacier ice at the end last major ice age. Over a period of time that began about 14,000 years ago, an enormous "ice lobe" crept south from the Arctic, pulverizing all in its way and kneading the land into a new configuration.

Red River Valley is a folk song often sung by the Sons of the Pioneers. It was widely believed to be a Texas re-working of a popular American song of 1896, "In the Bright Mohawk Valley." However, research has found that it was known in at least five Canadian provinces before then.