Homestead On The Farm

Recordings

Songs Of The Famous Carter Family, Flatt and Scruggs, 1961
Lester 'N' Mac, Earl Scruggs, 1971
Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia, Carter Family, 1973
Oz and Charlie, Bashful Brother Oswald and Charlie Collins, 1982
Old American Heart Throbs, Smokey Joe Miller, 1982
1959-1963 Box Set, Flatt and Scruggs, 1992
Their Clinch Mountain Home - The Complete Victor Recordings 1928-1929, The Carter Family, 1993
Carolina Scrapbook, Krüger Brothers, 1999
The Carter Family, Vol. 3, The Carter Family, 19??
Original Carter Family In Texas - Vol. 2 - Radio Transcriptions, The Carter Family, 19??
Plays Bluegrass, The David Thom Band, 2000

Notes

Played by the Black Mountain Boys on the 6th and 7th March 1964. The lyrics used by the Black Mountain Boys are as follows;

I wonder how the old folks are at home,
I wonder if they'll miss me while I'm gone,
I wonder if they'll pray for their boy who went away,
And left his dear old parents all alone.

Now you can hear the cattle lowing in the lane,
You can almost see those fields where I roam,
You can almost hear them cry as they kiss their boy goodbye,
I wonder how the old folks are at home.

Yes the village and a homestead on the farm,
And the mother's love that shields you from all harm,
And mother's love so true, a sweetheart brave and true,
A village and a homestead on the farm.

Now you can hear the cattle lowing in the lane,
You can almost see those fields where I roam,
You can almost hear them cry as they kiss their boy goodbye,
I wonder how the old folks are at home.

Now you can hear the cattle lowing in the lane,
You can almost see those fields where I roam,
You can almost hear them cry as they kiss their boy goodbye,
I wonder how the old folks are at home.