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The Trail of The Lonesome Pine
Words & Music by Ballard McDonald & Harry Carroll, 1912Recorded by Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, 1937
From the movie "Way Out West"
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On a mountain in Virginia, stands a lonesome pine,
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Just below is the cabin home of a little girl of mine.
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Her name is June and very, very soon, she'll belong to me
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For I know she's waiting there for me, 'neath that lone pine tree.
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In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
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On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine,
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In the pale moonshine, our hearts en - twine
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Where she carved her name and I carved mine.
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Oh, June, like the mountains I'm blue;
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Like the pine, I am lonesome for you.
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In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
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on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine
This one has been requested numerous times, by numerous visitors over the years. I blew off the request every time, because I didn't think it fit the "pop standards" criteria that I try to focus on for this site. And I still don't think it fits, but I'm putting it up anyway, because the more I heard the recording, the more I liked it. The fact that it was the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy that recorded it only added to the unlikely appeal.