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Porter Wagoner – Old Log Cabin For Sale lyrics
While strolling along in the country reviewing the scenes new and old
I found an old fashioned log cabin so beautiful there to behold
A stranger was standing in silence his eyes firmly fixed on the door
My heart ached in pity to see him for these were the words that it bore
And the sign read An Old Log Cabin For Sale an oaken bucket and well
Easy terms just keep a log on the fire and a light burning bright in the dell
Many years an old couple so patiently looked for their boy who's last promise did fail
Now the old rocking chair will be rocking no more there's an old log cabin for sale

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A welcome I read on the floormat an old braided rug by the door
The hands of an angel had made it with many a prayer prayed before
In an old rocking chair on she waited for one glimpse of him how she yearned
But now he was standing in silence too late yes too late he'd returned
And the sign read...
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Songwriters: J.W. W. PAYTE
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    Jrobinson
    This was one of my father's favorite songs.

    The man staring at the sign is the long gone son, whose mother (implied that the father was dead already) and his mother had waited patienlty for him until her death.

    When she knew her time was up, she or someone else put up the sign:

    An Old Log Cabin For Sale.
    An oaken bucket and well.
    (some sing "an old oaken bucket and well")
    Easy terms just keep a log on the fire.
    And a light burning bright in the dell.

    Even though she didn't live, her hopes was for her son's return.
    He finally did, but "too late, yes too late"!

    Some of my family lived out in the backwoods of northern Arkansas, miles from the nearest town; some even have no Internet when I visit occasionally. I can imagine such a setting for this song!

    It is sung slowly, but with passion by Porter Waggoner; all of us kids knew on Saturday nights that The Portor Waggoner Show would be on the tv after Dad got home, unless the electtricity was out at our house.
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      Jrobinson
      This was one of my father's favorite songs.

      The man staring at the sign is the long gone son,... Read more →

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