Blue Ridge Cabin Home Song Lyrics and Chords by Lester Flatt
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
Recorded by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Written by Gladys Stacey and Louise Certain
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There's a well beaten path
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in the old mountainside
Where
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I wandered when I was a
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lad
And I wandered alone to the
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place I call home
In
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those Blue Ridge hills far
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away
Oh I love those hills of old
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Virginia
From
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those Blue Ridge hills I did
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roam
When I die won't you bury me on the
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mountain
Far
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away near my Blue Ridge mountain
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home
Now my thoughts wander back to
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that ramshackle shack
In
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those Blue Ridge hills far
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away
Where my mother and dad were
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laid there to rest
They are
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sleeping in peace together
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there
Repeat #2
I return to that old cabin
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home with the sigh
I've
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been longing for days gone
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by
When I die won't you bury me on that
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old mountain side
Make
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my resting place upon the hills so
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high
Repeat #2 x2
FAQ
Who sang the the song Blue Ridge Cabin Home?
- The song Blue Ridge Cabin Home was sang by Lester Flatt.
Who is Lester Flatt?
- Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979) was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in The Foggy Mountain Boys (popularly known as "Flatt and Scruggs").
Flatt's career spanned multiple decades, breaking out as a member of Bill Monroe's band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and collaboration works exclusive of Scruggs. He first reached a mainstream audience through his performance on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for the network television series The Beverly Hillbillies, in the early 1960s.
