Goodnight-Loving Trail (song)
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"Goodnight-Loving Trail" is a song by Utah Phillips about the cattle trail of the same name. One of the namesakes of the trail, Charles Goodnight is also credited with inventing the chuckwagon.Rise Up Singing page 224 Lyrics and liner notes [https://web.archive.org/web/20120401050107/http://thelongmemory.com/goodnightloving.html] are available from the author's website.
Recordings
- Utah Phillips, Starlight on the Rails
- Ed Trickett, Tellin takes Me Home
- Finest Kind, Lost in a Song {{cite web |title=Finest Kind |url=http://www.woodenshipproductions.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=32 |format=web review |accessdate=2008-01-13 |archive-date=2011-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718081743/http://www.woodenshipproductions.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=32 |url-status=dead }}
- Tom Waits, Dime Store Novels Vol. 1
- Ian Tyson, Ian Tyson
- Rosalie Sorrels, Strangers In Another Country
- Chris LeDoux, Songbook of American West
- Swan Arcade, Round Again
- Charlie Daniels, Nighthawk (2016){{Cite news|url=http://www.wideopencountry.com/charlie-daniels-night-hawk/|title=Charlie Daniels Announces New Cowboy Inspired Album, 'Night Hawk'|last=Liebig|first=Lorie|date=2016-08-11|work=Wide Open Country|access-date=2017-03-08|language=en-US}}
- Willi Carlisle, Peculiar, Missouri (2022)
Pop culture
The song is used as the opening of the h2g2 article on Roswell, New Mexico.{{cite web |title=Roswell, New Mexico, USA |date=March 2007 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A19773165 |format=on-line encyclopedia article |accessdate=2008-06-17}}
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