The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (song)

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composer=Ballard MacDonald
lyricist=Harry Carroll
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"The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913 with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll. In the song the singer expresses his love for June who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The chorus is: [MacDonald, "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" (Sheet music).] :"In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,":"On the trail of the lonesome pine—":"In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine,":"Where she carved her name and I carved mine;":"Oh, June, like the mountains I'm blue—":"Like the pine I am lonesome for you,":"In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,":"On the trail of the lonesome pine."

"The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" has been recorded numerous times.

References

Bibliography

*MacDonald, Ballard (w.); Carroll, Harry (m.). "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" (Sheet music). New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. (1913).

External links

* [http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/0000/0717/cusb-cyl0717d.mp3 "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"] , Manuel Romain (Edison Blue Amberol 1743, 1913)—" [http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project] ".