My Little Home in Tennessee

DESCRIPTION: "Ev're night I'm greaming of that little home Down among the hills of Tennessee." It's "just a little shack," but the birds sing there, and mother lived there until she died. But another man won the singer's beloved, so he wanders broken-hearted
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric)
KEYWORDS: home love rejection mother rambling
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 106, "My Little Home in Tennessee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11389
RECORDINGS:
Blue Sky Boys, "My Little Home in Tennessee" (Bluebird 8143/Montgomery Ward 7327)
The Carter Family, "My Little Home in Tennessee" (Victor CNV-102)
File: Brne106

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