Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Subject: In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From:
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 02:10 PM

Looking for the lyrics to the song which begins "In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, on the trail of the lonesome pine."

Subject: RE: Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From: mm
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 02:42 PM

I haven't got the lyrics, but the song is in a film by Laurel and Hardy called Way Out West, which you should find in most video stores.

Subject: RE: Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From: Zorro
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 04:24 PM

Two sites that have many songs and links:
www.runet.edu/~bluegrass
www.nsknet.or.jp/~motoya/
www.bgr.ee/LINKS

Did I say two?

Subject: RE: Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 08:30 PM

Just above the threads listing, type Blue Ridge in the filter box, then set the age to 90, then hit the Show Threads button. You will find what you want there.

Subject: RE: Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From: Martin Pearson
Date: 30 Jun 98 - 10:21 PM

As many as I know off the top of my head.

On a mountain in Virginia
Stands a lonesome pine
Just below is the cabin home
Of a little girl of mine.
Her name is June and very very soon
She'll belong to me
For I know she's waiting there for me
'Neath that lone pine tree.

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.

(Actually I think thats all there is, certainly that,s all there is in the L&H movie, except stan does both a low and high chorus after being bonked with a mallet. Ah traditiom, its a wunnerful thing.)

Subject: RE: Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 Aug 98 - 02:50 AM

There are so many threads about this one, that is hard to pick out which one is most definitive. (Plus it is possible that I missed someone's giving this info before me) Anyway, here goes. The song was written in 1913 by Ballard MacDonald and Harry Carroll. You can find the sheet music at the Levy Sheet Music Site. Better still, there is a complete real audio recording at

The Library of Congress (now this link works-click to hear)

The recording is by tenor Walter Van Brunt, recorded for Edison in the same year it was written, 1913.

Subject: RE: Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 Aug 98 - 02:54 AM

Something went wrong with the Library of Congress Link. It must be too late (or early). Anyway, you will find it and several other neat things on this page

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vssnde.html

Subject: RE: Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA
From: Gene
Date: 29 Aug 98 - 12:53 PM

Use the FORUM SEARCH feature near the top of the page and enter [ lonesome pine ] in the BODY block.....to bring up related previous posts.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From:
Date: 30 May 06 - 05:17 PM

Hello. Can`t seem to find a recording of the version of Lonesome
pine about the cow Anybody know where I can find it? Thanx much
My mother loved it and sang it all the time she just passed away at 96 and I like to play it at her funeral.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: Gene
Date: 30 May 06 - 06:24 PM

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1150#126052

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 05:10 PM

I recall this from my childhood. (Sorry, they are only fragments and might even be parts of two different songs.)

"In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
Stood a cow on a railroad track."

It ends with,

"They found her horns in Virginia
And her tail by the Lonesome Pine."

Note: I stumbled upon this site only because I recalled this song my father sang during car trips in the 1940's while driving my grandson through the mountains of North Carolina by the Blue Ridge Parkway and admiring the pines.

From: Lawrence

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: Peace
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 05:14 PM

Words by Ballard Macdonald / Music by Harry Carroll

(c) 1913 Shapiro Bernstein & Co

from

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:dOeFSBVMgqYJ:members.aol.com/nstephen7/lonesomepine.html+%22the+trail+of+the+lonesome+pine%2

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 07:20 PM

Sheet music (1913) at American Memory. Data on composers, etc. in thread 44410, linked above, or Trail Lonesome Pine
Made popular by Dorothy Brenner, vaudeville singer and actress.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: open mike
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 10:51 PM

this site sys it has a midi sing along of this song.
http://www.melodylane.net/trail.html
the movie by the same name was taken from a book by John Fox