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Thread #116137 Message #2511198
Posted By: Richie
09-Dec-08 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: Lyr Add: MY HOME AMONG THE HILLS
My Home Among the Hills is a song the Carters recorded in 1940. It seems as if A.P. wrote this trying to recreate Gene Autry's 1932 hit "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine."
Any other info?
MY HOME AMONG THE HILLS-Carter Family
Got a home in the hills of old Virginia I love still And it stands near the lonesome pines And I long to go back to the vine covered shack Where I left that old mother of mine
I can still see her there in that old rocking chair In my home among the hills And I seem to hear her say why did you go away From your home among the hills
The pine trees stand alone near my old Virginia home And that silver- haired mother of mine I can see her smiling face in that old familiar place In my home among the hills
I'm leaving here today I'm going back to stay In my home among the hills How happy we will be near the lonesome pine trees In my home among the hills