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Thread #17944 Message #1204304
Posted By: GUEST,Doc LeVeque
10-Jun-04 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Santa Fe Trail
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Fe Trail
The lyrics offered by Toadfrog (02-04-04) present somewhat of a mystery. This song was recorded in the 1940's by the Glenn Miller orchestra. The melody is rather plaintive, but the lyrics pose several questions; I believe it to be otherworldly.
"Angels come to paint the desert nightly when the moon is beaming brightly along the Santa Fe Trail
Stardust scattered all along the highway on a rainbow colored skyway along the Santa Fe Trail
Beside you I'm riding every hill and dale while shadows hide you just like a pretty purple veil thereby hangs a tale
I've found you, and the mountains that surround you are the walls I built around you along the Santa Fe Trail"
"Angels", "shadows that hide you", "a tale", "walls I built around you"............this all bespeaks (at least to me) that the composer(s), Cubin/Coolidge/Groscz, had something more in mind than yet another 1940's ballad. N'est ce pas?