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Thread #27661   Message #540062
Posted By: wysiwyg
02-Sep-01 - 02:20 AM
Thread Name: Help: Sacred? - Cabin on the Hill
Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE LOG CABIN BY THE SEA (Carter)
And the last one was already posted HERE, with a discussion ensuing of the correctness of a transcription Stewie had made. Comparing it with the Carter site version, and the typos or misheard lyrics indicated there, I came up with the following.

~S~

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LITTLE LOG CABIN BY THE SEA
(as by the Carter Family)

There is a precious volume of pages all finger-worn and old
In that little log cabin by the sea
It is the old old bible more precious now than gold
It's the bible that my mother gave to me

CHO:
'Tis the old precious bible blessed bible
That she read in the cabin by the sea (by the sea)
The precious precious bible the blessed blessed bible
The bible that my mother gave to me

How often I have listened to the tempest howl and rave
Round that little log cabin by the sea
While mother read of Jesus who walked upon the wave
How Jesus calmed the stormy Galilee

How often oh how often she read the flowing* Word
With the message from the precious word of God
It told of faithful Daniel who trusted in the Lord
While it** led me in the pathway that she trod

There is no other volume so precious as this book
It tells me how to live and how to die
It tells me of that city oh wondrous wondrous look***
And that I'll meet my loved ones by and by

*may be "glowing"
** may be "she" *** may be "book"
Other variations between texts appear merely stylistic.
SOURCE:
(per Stewie) Source: The Carter Family 'Little Old Log Cabin by the Sea' Vi 21074. Recorded Bristol, Tennessee, 1 August 1927. Reissued on The Carter Family 'Anchored in Love' Rounder CD 1064. Also reissued on Various Artists 'The Bristol Sessions' Country Music Foundation CD CMF-011-D.

SH