Happy Trails (song)

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| artist = Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

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| released = {{Start date|1952}}

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| genre = Country, folk, theme song

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| label = RCA Victor

| writer = Dale Evans

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"Happy Trails" is a song by Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans, known as the theme song for both The Roy Rogers Show on radio and The Roy Rogers Show on television, in which they starred. It was written by Evans and always sung by the duo over the end credits of those programs. Dale wrote this song in 1951 during the life of Robin, Roy and Dale's only child together who was born with Downs Syndrome.

Dale decided Roy needed a new song for the closing of their Roy Rogers Radio Show, At the time Roy was using the song "Smiles are made out of Sunshine."

"Happy Trails" was released in 1952 as a 78 RPM and 45 RPM by Rogers and Evans with the Whippoorwills and Orchestra, on RCA Victor Records. It was re-issued in 1957 as a 45 RPM record on RCA Victor/Bluebird. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.{{Cite web|title=The Top 100 Western Songs|author=Western Writers of America|year=2010|author-link=Western Writers of America|website=American Cowboy|url=http://www.americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019002745/http://americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs|archive-date=19 October 2010|url-status=dead}}

In April 9, 2025, it was inducted into National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, and/or aesthetically significant". {{Cite web |title=National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of Elton John, Chicago, Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ Mary J. Blige, Amy Winehouse, Minecraft and Microsoft |url=https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-sounds-of-elton-john--chicago--broadway-s--hamilton---mary-j.-bl/s/986b2312-27dd-4b66-bd41-3113e0cb2e57 |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=Library of Congress - News and Content for Media |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=2025-04-09 |title=Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,’ ‘Hamilton’ Cast Album And ‘Minecraft’ Among Additions To Library Of Congress’ National Recording Registry |url=https://deadline.com/2025/04/national-recording-registry-library-of-congress-2025-1236363956/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |title=National Recording Registry adds Tracy Chapman, Hamilton and the Minecraft game soundtrack |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5352774/national-recording-registry-tracy-chapman-elton-john-hamilton-minecraft |access-date=2025-04-11 |work=NPR |language=en}}