Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 01:52 PM

I remember that dump cow parody from childhood. Thanks for the multiple versions.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 04:15 PM

Joe, when I click, I get a diagnostic that says 'Not enough memory available to complete this operation. turn off one or more applications...etc'

However, I access others MIDIs without trouble. And the only other operations I am running are background things like virus checkers.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 08 May 11 - 01:36 AM

Here is the version I recall hearing as a kid:

In the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginny,
Lived a cow by a railroad track.
She was a good old cow with eyes so fine,
But you can't expect a cow to read a railroad sign,
So she stood in the middle of the track,
And the train came and hit her in the back.
You'll find her bones in the mountains of Virginny,
And her spine on the Lonesome Pine.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: GUEST,JB3
Date: 09 May 11 - 01:13 AM

Did anyone ever dance to the old singing square dance, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine?" I had the same tune, with square dance calls substituted for most of the words, but would end, each time through, with: "In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 May 11 - 10:33 AM

I never danced to it, JB, but when I think about it, once the song appeared in the Laurel & Hardy film, it would have been a big hit, and composing a square dance to it would be natural.

Guest Richard, yours was the 11th time somebody posted that same stupid, gross parody. MOst parodies are like graffiti. Something cheap and ugly splashed onto somebody else's hard work.

I watched the Laurel and Hardy singing on YouTube. I believe that's the first time I ever saw them smile. The fat guy changes incredibly when he smiles.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: GUEST,Vabluegrass
Date: 19 Oct 22 - 12:41 PM

My mother sang this song to us when we were little but her words were slightly different:

In the blue ridge mountains of Virginia
Stood a cow on a railroad track.
She was a good old cow with a heart so fine
But you can't expect a cow to read a railroad sign

She stopped!

Cha Cha Cha

In the middle of the track!

And a train!

Cha Cha Cha

Hit her right in the back!

In the blue ridge mountains of Virginia
They found her tail on her lonesome spine...
Her head was squashed!

lol
I miss my mom!