Lyr Req: Trail Dust

Subject: Lyr Req: Trail Dust
From: open mike
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 06:11 PM

I have heard this recently and wonder about the source/author/writer.

this is not the same song as discussed in the thread "Dust"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trail Dust
From: open mike
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 06:23 PM

not these:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=27186#343226
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=32437#542800


Here are the lyrics..looking for references, source, etc.

TRAIL DUST

Trail Dust
Where do you go a-driftin'
Up where the sands are shiftin'
Into another day
Shimmering Trail Dust
What are the hopes you're sharin'
What are the dreams you're wearin'
Under your veil of gray
I wander on as long as you are rising high
As long as I can see your lazy trail in the sky
CHORUS:
And just like the flowers
Under the desert showers
I dream of happy hours
And let the trail dust rise
(instrumental break…and…repeat chorus)

Trail Dust, Trail Dust…….

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trail Dust
From: open mike
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 02:29 AM

i did find a band in texas called this..
but i do not know if they know the song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trail Dust
From: open mike
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:28 AM

I have located this done by the Sons of the Pioneers
written by Andy Parker, also performed by Andy Parker and the Plainsmen

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trail Dust
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 01:56 PM

Open Mike: Did you listen to the song to confirm it is the right one?

BMI.com lists 5 different songs called TRAIL DUST: one by Bill Emerson, one by Andy Parker, one by "De Savis/Nale/Scrogin", one by Lou Wayne, and one by Roy Hammer.

There are several artists at CD Baby that have recorded songs called TRAIL DUST, but they don't seem to be the same song, and the site doesn't give information about origins:

From Saddlestrings, "Somewhere in the Middle of Wyoming":

...God knows the reason why.
I often think about you when the sunset lights the hills.
You probably remember me when you take your headache pills.
They say blood is thicker than water,
But trail dust is thicker than blood.
When you look back....

From Moriss Taylor, "Volume III":

...Trail dust (trail dust) trail dust (trail dust)
Always there all day long,
Choking me (choking me), cannot see (cannot see),
This trail dust is my destiny.
Out on the desert plains....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trail Dust
From: open mike
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 11:22 PM

ha! Morris Taylor has had a t.v. and radio show in this county for many decades...was even awarded entertainer of the year recently..


and he is on the air a khsl radio right now--8 pm til midnite

he is in his 80's and is still going strong!!
but that is a different dust song

http://www.1035theblaze.com