Welcome to the Spring

Bob Nolan
Original copyright: February 16, 1938

Springtime is wedding ring time.
Cowboys on the roam turn their thoughts to home.
Yearning for his returning,
Someone waits beyond the mountain’s dome.

Refrain:
When the prairie doves are wingin’ on the zephyrs of the wind,
And the lobo wolf is callin’ where the timberlines begin,
When the painted sunset fills the sky where stormy clouds have been,
That’s the rollin’ prairie’s welcome to the spring.
Every trail I travel, they unravel leading me to you.
Sunlight beamin’, cowboy dreamin’,
Hope you’re dreamin’, too.
If the song I sing is answered from the purple mountain’s rim,
That’s the rollin’ prairie’s welcome to the spring.

Bob Nolan wrote "Welcome to the Spring" for Cattle Raiders (1938), a Columbia B-western starring Charles Starrett. For some reason, the Sons of the Pioneers didn't record it on their Orthacoustic "Symphonies of the Sage" radio transcriptions. "Welcome to the Spring" was registered for copyright on February 16, 1938.

“Welcome to the Spring” the sheet music is included in Bob Nolan’s Folio of Original Cowboy Classics No. 1, ©1939 by American Music, Inc.

Welcome to the Spring (American Music, Inc.)

SONS OF THE PIONEERS TRANSCRIPTION RECORDINGS

Lucky U Ranch radio shows (courtesy of Larry Hopper)
- Transcriptions disc TR-145, Special Bob Nolan program (December 14, 1951)
- Transcriptions disc TR-597/598 (December 10, 1952)