AN OLD LOG CABIN FOR SALE
Recorded by Porter Wagoner
Words and music: Payte
[A] While strolling a-[D] long in the [A] country
Re-[E7] viewing the scenes new and [A] old
I found an old-[D] fashioned log [A] cabin
So [E7] beautiful there to be-[A] hold;
A [D] stranger was standing in [A] silence
His [E7] eyes firmly fixed on the [A] door
My heart ached in [D] pity (or: and pitied) to [A] see him
For [E7] these were the words that it [A] bore.
CHORUS:
And the sign [D] read "An old [A] cabin for sale
An [E7] old oaken bucket and [A] well"
F'he returns, just [D] keep a [A] log on the fire
And a [E7] light burning bright in the [A] dell;
Many [D] years an old couple did [A] patiently look
2nd Chorus (so [A] patiently looked)
For their [E7] boy whose last promise did [A] fail
Now the old rockin' [D] chair will be [A] rocking no more
There's an [E7] old log cabin for [A] sale.
A welcome I read on the floor mat
An old braided rug by the door
The hands of an angel had made it
With many a prayer prayed before;
In an old rockin' chair, long she waited
For one glimpse of him how she yearned
And now he was standing in silence
Too late, yes, too late he'd returned.
2nd CHORUS:
TAG: There's ...no ...place ...like ...home.
source: Gene L. Graham
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