<P> "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll . Inspired by John Fox, Jr.'s 1908 novel of the same title, the song expresses the singer's love for his "girl" June, who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia . The chorus is: </P> <Dl> <Dd> In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, </Dd> <Dd> On the trail of the lonesome pine--</Dd> <Dd> In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine, </Dd> <Dd> Where she carved her name and I carved mine; </Dd> <Dd> Oh, June, like the mountains I'm blue--</Dd> <Dd> Like the pine I am lonesome for you, </Dd> <Dd> In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, </Dd> <Dd> On the trail of the lonesome pine . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, </Dd> <Dd> On the trail of the lonesome pine--</Dd>

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