This excerpt is from “Popular Songs and Modern Poetry” c. 1967, by Lindley Williams Hubbell and reprinted by the good graces of Makoto Ozaki and the Iris Press from the CD-ROM Collected Works.

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Gertrude Stein, as all the world knows, was more interested in painting than in music. She did not make much use of popular song in her books, preferring even humbler forms of song: counting-out rhymes like “One two three four five six seven, all good children go to Heaven,” children’s jingles like “star light, star bright, first star I’ve seen tonight,” nonsense verses like “Polly wolly doodle,” and of course the album rhyme which became her trademark, “When this you see remember me.”
However, her favorite piece of music was an American popular song of about 1912 called The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. This was the title of a very popular novel by John Fox (what lovely titles those sentimental old novels had: The Shepherd of the Hills, The Girl of the Limberlost, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, etc.) which was published in 1908 and dramatized in 1912 with the famous actress Charlotte Walker in the leading role. In 1916 it was filmed with the same actress. It was natural for someone to cash in on the enormous popularity of this story by writing a song with the same title, and to the end of her life it was Gertrude Stein’s favorite. I have seen somewhere a photograph of the author of Tender Buttons, which is perhaps the most esoteric book in the English language, holding the sheet music out in front of her, and with her mouth wide open, lustily singing her favorite song. Such are the pastimes of Parnassus.