My Ozark Mountain Home

DESCRIPTION: Singer recalls his mother sitting in "that little cabin home" "in those Ozark Hills far away." Mother is dead and buried in a "little mound of clay" and the cabin is gone. He's "going back and build a shack...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1932 (StuffDreams2)
KEYWORDS: homesickness home return death nonballad mother
FOUND IN: US(So)
Roud #21512
RECORDINGS:
George Edgin's Corn Dodgers, "My Ozark Mountain Home" (on StuffDreams2)
Swing and Turn Jubilee, "My Ozark Mountain Home", Max Hunter Folk Song Collection, Cat #1589 (MFH #1042), accessed 18 June 2020 at https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=1589. (1 text, 1 tune)
File: RcMOMH

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