Song Category: Early Country

Motherless children have a hard time when their mother is dead Motherless children have a hard time when their mother is dead See them wander from door to door ...

Take me back take me back to my old mountain home Take me back where my heart longs to be Where we played by the brook in the cool shady nook In the mountains o...

Far away upon a hill on a sunny mountain side Many years ago we parted, my own true love and I From the sunny mountain side Oh she clung to me and trembled, whe...

   Now you’re back on my doorstep a’ crying    Like I cried through all those lonely years    But I can’t dry your tears it’s been too l...

   My Dixie darling    Listen to this song I sing    Beneath the silver moon    With my banjo right in tune    My heart is ever true    I love no one but you   ...

Got a home in the hills of old Virginia I love still And it stands near the lonesome pines And I long to go back to the vine covered shack Where I left that old...

In the distant state of Texas By the silver Rio Grande Strolled a couple out one evening Was two sweethearts hand in hand Was a rich man’s pretty daughter...

   My home’s across the Blue Ridge Mountain (3X)    For I never expect to see you any more How can I keep from crying (3X) For I never expect to see you a...

When the sun sets in the west my Honey Lou Then’s the time I love you best my Honey Lou Come and look into my eyes When the moon shines in the skies IR...

I am thinking tonight of an old cottage home That stands on the brow of the hill Where in life’s early morning I once loved to roam But now all is quiet a...