There's a Long, Long Trail is a popular song from World War 1.
There's a Long, Long Trail is a popular song from World War I. The lyrics were by Stoddard King (1889–1933) and the music by Alonzo "Zo” Elliott (1891–1964), both seniors together at Yale University. It was published in London in 1914. In Elliott's own words to the American writer Marc Drogin shortly before his death, he created the music as an idle pursuit one day in his dorm room at Yale in 1913. King walked in, liked the music and suggested a first line. Elliott sang out the second, and so they went through the lyrics. They performed it (with some trepidation) before the fraternity that same evening.
