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Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Jun-06 - 11:05 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home
Subject: Lyr Add: I WONDER HOW THE OLD FOLKS ARE AT HOME
This Statler Brothers site has a 1957 version that's only very slightly different.

I WONDER HOW THE OLD FOLKS ARE AT HOME

(F.W. Vandersloot - Herbert S. Lambert)
? ? '57 Jerry Vogel Music, ASCAP ?

I wonder how the old folks are at home
I wonder if they miss me while I roam
I wonder if they pray for the boy who went away
And left his dear old parents all alone

You could hear the cattle lowin' in the lane
You could almost see the fields of blue grass green
You could almost hear them cry as they kiss their boy goodbye
I wonder how the old folks are at home
[ banjo ] Just a village and a homestead on the farm
And a mother's love to keep you from all harm
A mother's love so true a sweetheart that loves you
Just a village and a homestead on the farm

You could hear the cattle lowin'...
I wonder how the old folks are at home
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The Harry Fox agency licensing site, www.songfile.com, attributes songs of this title to Vandersloot/Lambert and to the Carter Family. There is a separate entry for a song titled "The Homestead on the Farm," attributed to A.P. Carter.