's a happy child at home (there?s a happy ch...Standing out upon the hill (standing out upon the hill) ...In the shadow of a tree (in the shadow of a tree) ...To the cabin on the hill (to the cabin on the hill) ...To the cabin on the hill (to the cabin on the hill) ...Neath the shadow of the tree (neath the shadow of the tree) ...To the cabin on the hill (to the cabin on the hill) ...But the sadness of it all (but the sadness of it all) ...that happy child at home (to that happy chil...To the cabin on the hill (to the cabin on the hill) ...To the cabin on the hill (to the cabin on the hill) ...Neath the shadow of the tree (neath the shadow of the tree) ...To the cabin on the hill (to the cabin on the hill)

s a happy childhood home in my memory I can ...Standing out upon the hill 'neath the shadow of the tree ...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill. ...t to wander back to the cabin on the hill ...'Neath the shadow of the tree I would like t...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill ...But the saddest of it all I...hat happy childhood home matters not how muc...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill

s a happy childhood home in my memory I can ...Standing out upon the hill 'neath the shadow of the tree...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill....t to wander back to the cabin on the hill...'Neath the shadow of the tree I would like t...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill...But the saddest of it all I...hat happy childhood home matters not how muc...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill

s a happy childhood home in my memory I can ...Standing out upon the hill 'neath the shadow of the tree ...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill. ...t to wander back to the cabin on the hill ...'Neath the shadow of the tree I would like t...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill ...But the saddest of it all I...hat happy childhood home matters not how muc...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill

s a happy childhood home in my memory I can ...Standing out upon the hill 'neath the shadow of the tree ...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill. ...t to wander back to the cabin on the hill ...'Neath the shadow of the tree I would like t...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill ...But the saddest of it all I...hat happy childhood home matters not how muc...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill

s a happy childhood home in my memory I can ...Standing out upon the hill 'neath the shadow of the tree...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill....t to wander back to the cabin on the hill...'Neath the shadow of the tree I would like t...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill...But the saddest of it all I...hat happy childhood home matters not how muc...mply wander back to the cabin on the hill

The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home...'Tis summer, the people are gay;...The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,...While the birds make music all the day;...The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,...comes a-knocking at the door,...l sing one song for the old Kentucky home,...For the old Kentucky home far away. ...ey hunt no more for the 'possum and the coon,...On meadow, the hill and the shore,...hey sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,...On the bench by that old cabin door;...The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart,...The time has come when the people have to part...The head must bow and the back will have to b...Wherever the people may go;...A few more days and the trouble all will en...In the field where sugar-c...re days for to tote the weary load,...days till we totter on the road,

The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home...'Tis summer, the people are gay;...The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,...While the birds make music all the day;...The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,...comes a-knocking at the door,...l sing one song for the old Kentucky home,...For the old Kentucky home far away. ...ey hunt no more for the 'possum and the coon,...On meadow, the hill and the shore,...hey sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,...On the bench by that old cabin door;...The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart,...The time has come when the people have to part...The head must bow and the back will have to b...Wherever the people may go;...A few more days and the trouble all will en...In the field where sugar-c...re days for to tote the weary load,...days till we totter on the road,

The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home...'Tis summer, the people are gay;...The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,...While the birds make music all the day;...The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,...comes a-knocking at the door,...l sing one song for the old Kentucky home,...For the old Kentucky home far away. ...ey hunt no more for the 'possum and the coon,...On meadow, the hill and the shore,...hey sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,...On the bench by that old cabin door;...The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart,...The time has come when the people have to part...The head must bow and the back will have to b...Wherever the people may go;...A few more days and the trouble all will en...In the field where sugar-c...re days for to tote the weary load,...days till we totter on the road,

le and I can't work on more ...ow are roaming with the blessed ...Oh, the chimney's falling down and the roof is all caved i...Letting in the sunshine and the rain ...And the only friend I've go...that little old log cabin in the lane ...Oh the paths have all grown up that led around the hill ...The fences have all gon...And the creeks have all dri...me to find a better home ...that little old log cabin in the lane

le and I can't work on more...ow are roaming with the blessed...Oh, the chimney's falling down and the roof is all caved i...Letting in the sunshine and the rain...And the only friend I've go...that little old log cabin in the lane...Oh the paths have all grown up that led around the hill...The fences have all gon...And the creeks have all dri...me to find a better home...that little old log cabin in the lane

she remembers well the day ...The day the fever got him, and ...always knowing that the love they shared wa...Far away the fiddler's bowing, the grass forever blue ...It was in the dead of winter when her man first caught the chill ...nd he said he heard the angels singing 'Cabin on the Hill' ...Through the springtime he was groaning 'The good times are past...By the summer she was moaning 'Old lover please come home' ...w she stands out in the midnight in the moonlight all aglow...stry and go over to the Shamrock station across the street from the high school and get...Charge it on my dad's credit card and get 'em to write it up as oil so dad never knew the difference. ... that and listen to the Stanley Brothers and then we'd go get a tape of Jim and Jesse and it was on to the Kentucky Colonels and Mack Wiseman and the New Grass Revival, Peter Rowan, and finally I got the brilliant idea one day to take all the greatest bluegrass song titles in the world and string 'e...The Bluegrass Widow. Quite possibly the worst bluegrass son... this in tribute to the Front Porch Boys, w...and parties and out on the porch and beer joints and one weekend on a handful of cheap ...We entered the International Blueg...ter than anybody in the competition. ...The other two bands too...s and went off into the night separated from the Front Porch Boys and met back up with them in the cold, gray light of dawn, as the bluegrass songs say...in Crockett singing the rudest, most grotes...I'm talking about the kind of song where not only is the character in the song dead by the end of the song, but he's been...And the Front Porch Boys st...The Front Porch Boys broke up three days later when they realized I owned the PA system. ...And the leaves had started ...d she stands out in the midnight in the moonlight all aglow...d she stands out in the midnight in the moonlight all aglow

They powered up the city with hydro-ele...They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there mo...heir living cutting the timber down, snakin...A time up the hill and into town. T.V....ild a dam and drown the rest....le Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek, bought...Got back home from overseas. Fift...The cars never came to town and the roads never got built and the price of all...That power kept on going straight uphill. The banks around the hollow sold for...around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it's side

They powered up the city with hydro-ele...They flooded out the hollow ...And all the folks down there mo...heir living cutting the timber down, ...A time up the hill and into town. ...ild a dam and drown the rest....le Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek, ...Got back home from overseas. ...The cars never came to ...And the roads never got built and the price of all...That power kept on going straight uphi...The banks around the hollow sold for...And the kitchen table turned on it's side