Southern Home

DESCRIPTION: "There's a little shack that is calling me back, Where the birds sing all the day. That's my little southern home, That's where I long to roam, So I'm drifting back that way." He has been "most everywhere," but he is "drifting back" to the girl he adores
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Roberts/Agey-InThePine)
KEYWORDS: home travel separation love return
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Roberts/Agey-InThePine #124, "Southern Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Where No Cabins Fall" (theme)
NOTES [50 words]: This is so close to "Where No Cabins Fall" in theme and vocabulary that I seriously thought about lumping them. But although the plot is the same, and they use many of the same words, they don't assemble the words in the same order. I wonder a little if the two didn't inspire each other, though. - RBW
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File: RAInP124

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