“Look down, look down that lonesome
road
Before you travel on
Look up, look up and greet your
maker
For Gabriel blows his horn
Weary, totin’ such a load
Tredgin’ down that lonesome road
Look down, look down that lonesome
road
Before you travel on
Through love, through love, what
have I done?
That you should treat me so
You cause me to walk and talk
Like I never done before
Weary, totin’ such a load
Tredgin’ down that lonesome road
Weary, totin’ such a load
Tredgin’ down that lonesome road.”
~ “The Lonesome Road”
~ 1927
~ music by Nathaniel Shilkret,
lyrics by Gene Austin, written in the style of an African-American folk song
& alternately titled “Lonesome Road,” “Look Down that Lonesome Road,” &
“Lonesome Road Blues.”
~ initially recorded by Gene Austin
September 16, 1927, other artists performing the song include Frank Sinatra,
Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby. Jack Prince sang the song in the television
series” The Andy Griffith Show” in the episode “Rafe Hollister Sings” which
originally aired February 11, 1963.
A man travels the snow sugared trail of the Delaware and Lehigh National
Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) that hugs the Kittatinny Ridge at Lehigh Gap
in serene winter solitude on a January afternoon in this monochrome shot.
In
the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, The Lehigh Gap
in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature
Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the
D&L Trail.
The
Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh
Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running
from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and
Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
