Trail Of The Lonesome Pine
music by harry carroll / lyrics by ballard macdonald

TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE      (SONG CAR-TUNES)   1925
Trail Of The Lonesome Pine is 1913 popular love song that was inspired by the John Fox, Jr. penned 1908 romance novel of the same title. The song was written by Harry Carroll and Tin Pan Alley lyricist Ballard MacDonald. The inspiring novel had been on the top ten bestseller list in 1908 and 1909, and it was adapted into a Broadway stage production in 1912 by playwright Eugene Walter. The play was later adapted to film in 1914 and 1916 and again in 1923. After the story had made these big screen silent film appearances, the song Trail Of The Lonesome Pine was used of a 1925 installment of Max Fleischer's Song Car-Tunes series. In 1936 the story was again brought to film in an award winning motion picture starring Henry Fonda. The following year, in 1937, the song made it's most celebrated appearance in the Laurel and Hardy film Way Out West. In the film the song is performed by The Avalon Boys with various vocalists, and it is lip-synced on screen by Stan Laurel. Over the years the song has been recorded by many, and among those who have called the song their favorite is playwright Gertrude Stein. Since 1964 the play adaptation has been performed at an outdoor theatre in the hometown of the original novel's author - Big Sone Gap, Virginia. It is the longest running dramatic outdoor production in the United States.
1913

ALBERT
CAMPBELL
& HENRY
​BURR
1913

MANUEL
​ROMAIN
1913

H. COVE
1913

EDNA BROWN
& JAMES F.
​HARRISON
1937

THE
HILL
​BILLIES
1937

LAUREL
​& HARDY
19??
​
THE
​BEU HUNKS
1942

THE
DINNING
​SISTERS
19??

RALPH
FLANAGAN
AND HIS
​ORCHESTRA
19??

ARTHUR
​GODFREY
19??

THE
SUNDOWNERS
​BAND
1956

RUSS MORGAN
AND HIS
​ORCHESTRA
19??

THE
​MELLOWMEN
1953

LAUREL
& HARDY
​PERFORMANCE
1957

BRENDA LEE
AND REX
​ALLEN
1958

LINK WRAY
AND THE
​WRAYMEN
19??

JIMMY
​DONLEY
19??

LONE PINE
AND HIS
MOUNTAINEERS
WITH
​BETTY CODY
1964

TRAIL OF THE
LONESOME
​PINK
19??

VIVIAN
​STANSHALL
19??

CILLA BLACK
​& BIGGINS
from
SURPRISE
SURPRISE
1985

TINY
​TIM
2004

BLUEGRASS
​PATRIOTS
2007
LAUREL
& HARDY
IMPERSON-
ATORS
2011

REX
​ALLEN
2013

TUKUO
20??

SHEET
MUSIC
​SINGER
20??

TOM
​HORTON
THE STORY OF THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
AUDIO BOOK - ENTIRE BOOK
1916 SILENT FILM
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
​
1.
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

Chorus:
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

2.
I can hear the tinkling waterfall
Far among the hills
Bluebirds sing each so merrily
To his mate in rapture trills
They seem to say, "Your June is lonesome, too"
Longing fills her eyes
She is waiting for you patiently
​Where the pine tree sighs
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