"Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" is a song written by Red River Dave McEnery shortly after

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's disappearance. It was copyrighted in 1939, and was first performed by David McEnery on a pioneer television broadcast from the 1939 New York World's Fair. McEnery recorded it in 1941. It has been covered by artists including Kinky Friedman,

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, the Greenbriar Boys, Country Gentlemen, the

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Band, and Plainsong.

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-based band The Heartstrings covered the song, and used the second line of the chorus as the title of their 2009 album ''Far Away in a Land That is Fair''.

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