Karen,

I know this is a feeble response. "On the Front Porch" was written by Richard & Robert Sherman and recorded by Burl Ives in the 1963 Disney. The song can be found in a 3 CD box set: The Music Of Disney - A Legacy In Song. Unfortunately my son has the CDs at college. I have only the box. The Sherman brothers were Disney's staff song writers in the 60's and wrote songs for Parent Trap, Sword In the Stone, In Search of the Castaways, The Monkey's Uncle, That Darn Cat, The Happiest Millionaire, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and Mary Poppins. I know, useless information and not the words to the song.