Old Cabin Home, The

DESCRIPTION: "I am going far, far away to leave you now, To the Mississippi River I am going"; he will take his banjo and sing "'Way down in my old cabin home." He will go to the graves of his sister and brother. He will leave "with all this darky band."
AUTHOR: T. Paine (sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (Dime-Song-Book #15)
KEYWORDS: home death return river music
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Dime-Song-Book #15, p. 8, "The Old Cabin Home" (1 text)
Little-Maggie-May-Songster, p. 30, "The Old Cabin Home" (1 text)
Heart-Songs, p. 457, "The Old Cabin Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Jolly-Miller-Songster-5thEd, #128, "Old Cabin Home" (1 text)
Roud #17575
NOTES [13 words]: Little-Maggie-May-Songster lists this as by Stephen C. Foster. It's not. - RBW
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File: JMSo128

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