Old Log Cabin for Sale, An

DESCRIPTION: "While strolling alone in the country... I found an old log cabin, So beautiful there to behold." Someone there says "There's no place like home." The singer sees a time when the cabin and the "old oaken bucket and well" are sold because no one wants them
AUTHOR: Mrs. J. W. Payte (source: Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley)
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Gospel Tide, according to Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley)
KEYWORDS: home commerce nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley 20, "An Old Log Cabin for Sale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #25819
RECORDINGS:
Whitey & Hogan, "An Old Log Cabin for Sale" (Decca 5817)
NOTES [64 words]: This was apparently recorded by Porter Wagoner, although I don't know the details.
Mrs. J. W. Payte was a sort of an in-house hymn-writer for some gospel publisher or other. Several other songs by her show up in obscure hymnals, although none seems to have made it big. I think it safe to assume that she never lived in a log cabin, else she would not have been so nostalgic for one. - RBW
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