'There's a long long trail' sheet music

'There's a Long, Long Trail' was a popular song during the First World War. The music was composed by Stoddard King and the words written by Zo Elliott, both Americans.

This version was published for Australia and New Zealand, and was owned by Gwendoline Morrison (1899-1920) of Dunedin, New Zealand. She probably played it when her brother Leonard Maxwell Morrison (1897-1974) was serving overseas in the First World War (1918-19).

THERE'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL

Nights are growing very lonely,

Days are very long;

I'm a-growing weary only

List'ning for your song.

Old remembrances are thronging

Thro' my memory

Till it seems the world is full of dreams

Just to call you back to me.

There's a long, long trail a-winding

Into the land of my dreams,

Where the nightingales are singing

And a white moon beams.

There's a long, long night of waiting

Until my dreams all come true;

Till the day when I'll be going down

That long, long trail with you.

All night long I hear you calling,

Calling sweet and low;

Seem to hear your footsteps falling,

Ev'ry where I go.

Tho' the road between us stretches

Many a weary mile,

I forget that you're not with me yet

When I think I see you smile.