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Lyr/Chords Req: Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia?

18 Feb 02 - 05:17 PM (#652896)
Subject: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: harpmaker

Or is it "The trail of the loansome pine"? Anybody got got the Lyr/Chords to this song? Thanks in advance.Or can it be downloaded? John&Chris.

18 Feb 02 - 05:35 PM (#652907)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

Pine
Posted by John in Brisbane, ABC format

18 Feb 02 - 05:45 PM (#652916)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

Lauel and Hardy words: Trail

18 Feb 02 - 06:06 PM (#652938)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

The original words and music are by Ballard MacDonald and Harry Carroll, 1912. The lyrics are at www.melodylane.net. You must email Jill to register. Here

18 Feb 02 - 06:22 PM (#652948)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

American memory has the sheet music. Search
Click Search, then type in name of song in the blank. Full sheet music here.

18 Feb 02 - 06:52 PM (#652968)
Subject: Origins: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
From: masato sakurai

(1) In the DT:

THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE (MacDonald and Carroll)

ON THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE (2)

(2) In the Forum:

Words to Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia??

Lyrics?on the trail of the lonesome pine

Need lyrics In the Blue Ridge Mts. of VA

(3) Sheet music at Levy:

Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by Ballard Macdonald. Music by Harry Carroll.
Publication: New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., Music Publishers, 224 West 47th St., 1913.
Instrumentation: piano and voice
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
First Line: On a mountain in Virginia stands a lonesome pine
First Line of Chorus: In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, on the trail of the lonesome pine
Performer: [Dorothy Brenner]

Also at Historic American Sheet Music (from Duke University) (CLICK HERE)

(4) Sound recording at The American Variety Stage (Click on "Browse"--"These titles are not available via a collection search")

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (written by Ballard McDonald and Harry Carroll), performed by Walter Van Brunt (RealAudio recording)
Edison 50083-L, recorded 1913
("No variety bill would be complete without a romantic ballad. Tenor Walter Van Brunt renders McDonald and Carroll's 1913 hit in the style that made him one of the most successful recording artists of the era.")

~Masato

18 Feb 02 - 07:19 PM (#652990)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: open mike

I wonder if you are looking for the song which i believe to be composed by U. Utah (bruce) Phillips which has a line which goes like this:

the Blue Ridge Mt.s of Virginia, are the closest thing to heaven that i know. ...da da da.....never let me go....

I don't remember any more of it,' but this is NOT the same as the theme from the movie based on a book by Gene Stratton Porter....

18 Feb 02 - 07:26 PM (#652999)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: GUEST,jaze

the Utah Phillips song is "Green Rolling Hills"-- Oh the green rolling hills of West Virginia are the nearest thing to heaven that I know...sung by Emmylou Harris on "Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town lp

18 Feb 02 - 07:55 PM (#653020)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was written by John Fox Jr in 1908, illus. by F. C. Yohn.

18 Feb 02 - 08:47 PM (#653068)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Sandy Paton

The song was sung in the godawful movie (starring Fred MacMurray?). I remembered it fondly from my childhood, then made the mistake of watching it again on one of the TV channels. The John Fox book was pretty dreadful, too.

Sandy (shuddering)

18 Feb 02 - 09:55 PM (#653101)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: harpmaker

Thank you all, very much indeed. Much appreiciated.J.T.harp.

19 Feb 02 - 11:08 AM (#653380)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Joe_F

When I was little, we also sang:

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
Stood a cow on a railroad track.
She was a good old cow with eyes so fine,
But you couldn'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 right in the back.
You'll find her horns in the mountains of Virginia,
And her tail on her lonesome spine.

19 Feb 02 - 11:52 AM (#653411)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Mrrzy

And there's also I've got them Blue Ridge Mountain blues, gonna stand right here and sing, my grip is packed to travel and I'm scratchin gravel for that Blue Ridge far away... lovely song.

20 Feb 02 - 12:26 AM (#653793)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virgin
From: Rolfyboy6

Every once in a while Daddy would whip out the ukelele or the mandolin and sing "In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, on the Trail of the Lonsome Pine" while mugging like Groucho Marx at my mother, and he would pour her a drink. They seemed to go bed early those nights after he'd been playing that stuff to her and making her laugh.

20 Feb 02 - 12:32 AM (#653794)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Sandy Paton

Scholars today are seriously studying the "function" of folk music in the family and in the community. Rolfyboy6 may have something of genuine importance to contribute to this field of academic exploration.

Sandy

25 Feb 02 - 04:19 PM (#657695)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: harpmaker

Thanks again for the contri' to this thread, Dicho and Masato, I enjoyed the links given. However, has anybody got any Lyr/chords to Laurel & Hardy's version? Masato's real audio recording was real usefull. L&Hs version in real audio, would be great!! J.T.Harp, & Thank's.

26 Feb 02 - 08:36 PM (#658643)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: harpmaker

Anybody????Please---

26 Feb 02 - 08:53 PM (#658650)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

Mandolin at : Trail

27 Feb 02 - 09:52 AM (#658993)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: masato sakurai

Sound clip for the Laurel and Hardy version is HERE.

~Masato

13 Aug 02 - 08:50 PM (#764822)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: harpmaker

Thank's for all the links everybody, Its been an absolute pleasure to work this song and get it tight. It goes down great.-For the guru's- Key "F" (?,to suit singer)-also the key L&H sings it. But I think it was originaly wrote in "C" Great song, Try going right up the neck on the guitar, the more you do , the better it sounds.(But only in parts) 7nths play a big part also.John

03 Oct 02 - 05:23 AM (#796027)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: Mr Happy

i've got 2 verses + chorus. does anyone have any more?

03 Oct 02 - 01:37 PM (#796258)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: GUEST

Mr Happy, if you followed the instructions to the sheet music at American Memory, you would know that there are only two verses plus chorus, and that the correct title is "On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine." It will also be found, 5th or 6th item, if you type in "In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia."

26 Aug 03 - 11:01 PM (#1008718)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virginia.
From: GUEST,eodiorne@yahoo.com

I'm looking for a song from the movie the trail of the lonesome pine th first few lines are everybody knows its just a muddy river but to me it's heaven on high let me live and make my home never more to roam where the lazy lazy river rolls by

28 Mar 06 - 12:37 PM (#1704779)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Blue ridge mountains of Virgin
From: GUEST,Kelly

this is also the song I learned as a little girl from my father and his mother.