Michael Martin Murphey closed out a successful decade of recording with the album "Land of Enchantment", which contained "Never Givin' Up on Love", "Got to Pay the Fiddler", "Route 66", and "Land of Enchantment", which became New Mexico's state ballad. Despite the impressive critical and commercial success he achieved throughout the 1980s, Michael Martin Murphey's creative heart and spirit began to focus on the Western music that first captured his imagination as a boy growing up in Texas. As early as 1985, Murphey performed with the New Mexico Symphony in a show called "A Night in the American West", which led to many
This Land Is Your Land program "Save Our History – Save our Sounds". The 1944 recording with this fourth verse can be found on "Woody Guthrie: This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Volume 1", where it is track 14. Woodyguthrie.org has a variant: It also has a verse: A 1945 pamphlet which omitted the last two verses has caused some question as to whether the original song did in fact contain the full text. The original manuscript confirms both of these verses. As with other folk songs, it was sung with different words at various times although the motives for this particular change