Trail Dreamin’
(Bob Nolan)
Sunset, and twilight’s falling.
I’ve been on the range all day.
I realize I’ve been closin’ my eyes
And dreamin’ the hours away.
Refrain:
All through the day in the saddle I sway,
Visions grow as I go trail dreamin’
I see a home on a blue mountain dome,
Love inlaid that I made trail dreamin’.
There’s a rainbow path all lined with stars
And it leads to a gate of moonbeam bars
And it’s welcome I feel till my vision so real
Turns to dust for I’m just trail dreamin’
"Trail Dreamin'" was written for the Columbia picture "Spoilers of the Range" starring Charles Starrett and the Sons of the Pioneers. This Bob Nolan song is still popular among hikers as well as riders because of it's leisurely pace. It was never commercially recorded until 1963 for RCA but you can find it on the Orthacoustic and Smokey the Bear radio transcriptions. Lloyd Perryman's 1963 arrangement, the one you are listening to now, is the perfect setting for a little gem of a song.
The sheet music was included in "Bob Nolan’s Folio of Original Cowboy Classics No. 2", © 1940 by AMERICAN MUSIC, INC. Photocopies of sheet music for this song are available from Calin Coburn, Bob Nolan's grandson. Email Calin for more details.
