Goodnight-Loving Trail (song)
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"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 Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929), also known as Charlie Goodnight, was a rancher in the American West. In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Early ...
is also credited with inventing the chuckwagon. Lyrics and liner note

are available from the author's website.


Recordings

* Utah Phillips, ''Starlight on the Rails'' *
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, ''Tellin takes Me Home'' *
Finest Kind Finest Kind is a folk music trio based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It consists of Ian Robb,Tom Waits, ''Dime Store Novels Vol. 1'' * Ian Tyson, ''Ian Tyson'' * Rosalie Sorrels, ''Strangers In Another Country'' * Chris LeDoux, ''Songbook of American West'' *
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, ''Round Again'' * Charlie Daniels, ''Nighthawk'' (2016) * Willi Carlisle, ''Peculiar, Missouri (2022)''


Pop culture

The song is used as the opening of the h2g2 article on
Roswell, New Mexico Roswell () is a city in, and the County seat, seat of, Chaves County, New Mexico, Chaves County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Chaves County forms the entirety of the List of micropolitan areas in New Mexico, Roswell micropolitan area. As of ...
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References

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