Goodnight-Loving Trail (song)

"Goodnight-Loving Trail"
Song by Utah Phillips
Published	1976
Composer(s)	Bruce Phillips
Lyricist(s)	Utah Phillips

"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.^[1] Lyrics and liner notes [1] 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 ^[2]
• 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)^[3]
• Willi Carlisle, Peculiar, Missouri (2022)

Pop culture

The song is used as the opening of the h2g2 article on Roswell, New Mexico.^[4]

References

1. Rise Up Singing page 224
2. "Finest Kind". Archived from the original (web review) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
3. Liebig, Lorie (2016-08-11). "Charlie Daniels Announces New Cowboy Inspired Album, 'Night Hawk'". Wide Open Country. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
4. "Roswell, New Mexico, USA" (on-line encyclopedia article). March 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-17.