The Lonesome Road ...

“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.