Wilf Carter Lyrics
"By The Silvery Moonlit Trail"

By The Silvery Moonlit Trail - Wilf Carter

In a lonely moonlit valley where man has seldom roamed
Lived a rancher with his daughter for years she made her home
For years she rode the ranges and knew every hidden trail
One place she loved to linger by the silvery moonlit trail.

Each night she'd go out riding when moon was shining bright
When the moon peeped over the tree tops leaving the valley
of silvery light
while she sat there on her pony and looked at the trails afar.
The stillness that was suddenly broken by a voice and a strumming guitar.

She sat a moment and listened it came from the moonlit trail
She spurred her pony onward across the shadowing vale.
There in the place she loved so well set a cowboy humming a tune.
about a girl he long to be with in the light of the silveery moon.

The moonlight cast a shadow there stood a maiden fair.
The moonlight cast a silvery glow across her golden hair.
Her face was like an angel her teeth were like the pearls
And then she smiled and I knew her, I'd found my long lost girl.

So many times we wandered when the moon was shinning bright
I miss your smile and loving eyes as I set along tonight.
It's easier since we parted my love has never failed
And now were back together my dear by the silvery moonlit trail.