Goodnight Loving Trail

GOODNIGHT LOVING TRAIL Time: 3/4 Tenor: D Bass: C

- Bruce "Utah" Phillips, 1973, on: Starlight on the Rails

- Record: Ian Tyson, "Ian Tyson" (1984), Key: D#

1 * 57 *

Too old to wrangle or ride on the swing

* * 1 *

You beat the tri-angle and you curse every-thing

* * 4 * (*)

If dirt was a kingdom, then you'd be the king____

1 57 1 4 (*)

On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail____

1 * 57 *

Our old woman's lonesome to-night____

1 57 1 4 (*)

Your French Harp blows like a lone bawling calf____

1 6m 2m 57

It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin

* * 4 1

Get in there and blow out the light____

1 * 57 *

With your snake oil and herbs and your liniments too

* * 1 *

You can do any-thing that a doctor can do

* * 4 * (*)

Ex-cept find a cure for your own goddamn stew____

1 * 57 *

The cook-fire's gone out and the coffee's all gone

* * 1 *

The boys are all up and we're raising the dawn

* * 4 * (*)

You're still sitting there all lost in a song____

1 * 57 *

I know that some-day that I'll be just the same

* * 1 *

Wearing an apron in-stead of a name

* * 4 * (*)

But no one can change it and no one's to blame____

'Cause the desert's a book writ in lizards and sage

It's easy to look like an old torn-out page

All faded and cracked with the colors of age

NOTES:

- Goodnight-Loving Trail: named for Charles Goodnight & Oliver Loving

- It ran from Texas to Denver, Colorado; then on to Cheyenne, Wyoming

SYMBOLS:

- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord

- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure

- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):

- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

- Key of C: C D E F G A B

- Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)