My Little Home In Tennessee

My Little Home In Tennessee - The Carter Family

Every night I'm dreaming of a little home

Down among the hills of Tennessee

And I'm always lonely longing to return

To the place that means the world to me

Just a little shack roof all turning black

Still it is a palace fair to me

Songbirds always singing 'round my kitchen door

In my little home in Tennessee

I can see my mother standing by the gate

As I drove the old horse up the lane

She would never scold me when I'd get in late

How I wish I'd never caused her pain

With her tender smile beaming all the while

No one could be so kind to me

Now she's gone to heaven and she'll never return

To my little home in Tennessee

I can still remember many years ago

When my sweetheart wandered by my side

Down among the mountains where wildflowers grow

There she promised she would be my bride

Then another man won her heart and hand

Then I knew how much she meant to me

I was brokenhearted and I went away

From my little home in Tennessee