Bing Crosby – Along The Navajo Trail, is a country/pop song, written by Dick Charles (pseudonym for Richard Charles Krieg), Larry Markes and Eddie DeLange in 1945.
It was the title song of the 1945 Roy Rogers film Along the Navajo Trail. It was also used in the 1945 film Don’t Fence Me In, when it was sung by Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers.
Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Charted versions in 1945 were by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters (recorded June 29, 1945) (No. 2); Gene Krupa (vocal by Buddy Stewart) (No. 7); and Dinah Shore (No. 7).
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Bing Crosby – Along The Navajo Trail lyrics
Every day, along about evening
When the sunlight’s beginning to pale
I ride through the slumbering shadows
Along the Navajo Trail
When it’s night and crickets are callin’
And coyotes are makin’ a wail
I dream by a smoldering fire
Along the Navajo Trail
I love to lie and listen to the music
When the wind is strummin’ a sagebrush guitar
When over yonder hill the moon is climbin’
It always finds me wishin’ on a star
Well whatta ya know, it’s mornin’ already
There’s the dawnin’, so silver and pale
It’s time to climb into my saddle
And ride the Navajo Trail
I love to lie and listen to the music
When the wind is strummin’ a sagebrush guitar
When over yonder hill the moon is climbin’
It always finds me wishin’ on a star
Well whatta ya know, it’s mornin’ already
There’s the dawnin’, so silver and pale (like a silvery veil)
It’s time to climb into my saddle
And ride the Navajo Trail
Ride the Navajo Trail
Ride the Navajo Trail
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