Song Lyrics Unknown - Goodnightloving Trail    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Goodnightloving Trail Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Goodnightloving Trail Theme ID: 4181 Album: N/A THE GOODNIGHT-LOVING TRAIL (Bruce Phillips) Too old to wrangle or ride on the swing, You beat the triangle and you curse everything. If dirt was a kingdom, they you'd be the king. On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail, Our Old Woman's lonesome tonight. Your French harp blows like the low bawling calf. It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin. Get in there and blow out the light. With your snake oil and herbs and your liniments, too, You can do anything that a doctor can do, Except find a cure for your own god damned stew CHORUS The campfire's gone out and the coffee's all gone, The boys are all up and they're raising the dawn. You're still sitting there, lost in a song. CHORUS I know that some day I'll be just the same, Wearing an apron instead of a name. There's nothing can change it, there's no one to blame For the desert's a book writ in lizards and sage, Easy to look like an old torn out page, Faded and cracked with the colors of age. CHORUS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Words and music by Bruce (Utah) Phillips Copyright Strike Music Recorded by Ed Trickett on The Telling Takes Me Home, FSI-46 and by Harry Belafonte on Homeward Bound This is a song about the "over the hill" cook on the cattle drive. The trail had precious little to do with "goodnight" or with "loving", but the song does. The trail going from Texas, went through New Mexico and north through Colorado, was named after an Army officer, Charles Goodnight, and a legendary cattleman, Oliver Loving, who blazed the trail over 100 years ago. According to an article in a recent Life magazine, Loving county in Texas - named after Oliver Loving - is "the most sparsely populated county in the contiguous United States, 647 square miles with 150 people scattered among 451 producing oil wells." The cattle drive on this trail is the frame in which Bruce portrays the loneliness of the cook, the "Old Woman," who plays harmonica ("French harp") by himself all night until dawn. He puts us inside a man who, worn down by years of wrangling, finds a place to live out his productive days dishing out stew to those who serve as constant reminders of his past. It is a loving picture, with the singer understanding the human consequences of riding herd on the desert for years and, indeed, anticipating his own aging. At least the worn out old cowboy had something to look forward to. @west @cowboy @age filename[ LOVTRAIL play.exe LOVTRAIL DC ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Grapes On The Vine, Great Green Gobs, Great Mandela, Great Storm Is Over, Greece Anthem Text, Greece Native Anthem Text, Green Back Dollar, Green Brier Shore, Green Broom, Green Bushes, Green Green Its Green They Say, Green Grow The Lilacs, Green Grow The Rashes O, Green Mountain, Green Valley, Greenback Dollar, Greenbergs, Greenland Fisheries, Greenland Monopole, Greenland Whale Fisheries, Greensleeves, Greenstamps, Grenada Anthem Text, Grey Funnel Line, Grey Hawk, Grey Jacket And Grey Trousers, Grey Mare, Grey Silkie Of Sule Skerry, Griesly Bride, Grimsby Lads, Griselda, Gruel, Guantanamera, guas De Maro, Guatemala Anthem Text, Guatemala Native Anthem Text, Gunboat Sailors, Guy Fawkes, Gypsy Davey, Gypsy Laddie, Gypsy Laddies, Gypsy Love Song, Gypsy Rover, Gypsys Warning, Hail The Yurt, Hal An Tow, Hallelujah Im A Bum, Halleys Comet, Halls Of Montezuma, Hame Dearie Hame, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy