Lyr Req: Back to Old Smokey Mountain

Subject: Lyr Req: back to old smoky mountains
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 12:56 PM

I think both laura Boosinger and Audie Murphy sang the song Back to old smoky mountains.Can you believe I can not find the lyrics anywhere.Any help would be sooooo appreciated   thanks   Al

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: back to old smoky mountains
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 01:09 PM

Are the two versions in thread 64373 any help? Old Smokey Mountains

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: back to old smoky mountains
From: GUEST,Al
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 01:20 PM

Thanks but the link you are refering to only gives the first verse.I just realized it was not done by Audie Murphy .. Gene Autry did it. Any further input would be greatly appreciated. Al

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: back to old smoky mountains
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 04:44 PM

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: back to old smoky mountains
From: RangerSteve
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 06:50 AM

I downloaded a recording of this song, but I can't seem to find it now. Anyway, it was from either Rose, the Record Lady or Honking Duck.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: back to old smoky mountains
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 04:13 PM

Seems to be more than one verse in the link if you scroll down.

I was thinking this might be a request for another song, "My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains" but apparently not. Peggy Seeger used to sing that one.

Charley Noble

Subject: Lyr Add: BACK TO OLD SMOKEY MOUNTAIN
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 08:48 PM

Thanks, GUEST, for the tip.

Transcribed from the sound file at Honking Duck.

BACK TO OLD SMOKEY MOUNTAIN
(As recorded by the Smoky Mountain Ramblers, 1930)

VERSE: There's a place that I love so.
I want the world to know.
Each night I'm dreamin'
And each day I'm schemin'
For the place that I love so.

CHORUS: Back to Old Smokey Mountain,
Back to that old hometown of mine.
Birds in the trees
And the honeybees
Cling to the honeysuckle vine.
There's a little girl that's waiting,
Praying each night and day for me.
Back to Old Smokey Mountain,
Back to my home in Tennessee.

SPOKEN: I want to go back up in Old Smokey Mountain, boys.
All the old folks, they're waitin' there for me,
And that's where I long to be.

REPEAT CHORUS