"The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" is a popular song written by Will S. Hays in 1871 for the minstrel trade. Written in dialect, the song tells of an elderly man, presumably a slave or former slave, passing his later years in a broken-down old log cabin. The title is from a refrain: "de little old log cabin in de lane".
The song itself was popular, resulting in several answer songs, but the melody was even more widely used, including songs set in the cowboy West: western songs ("The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim", "Little Joe, The Wrangler");[1] railroad songs ("Little Red Caboose Behind the Train"); and even hymns ("The Lily of the Valley").
The Ballad Index by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle lists more than 20 recordings of the song from 1903 to 1940.[2] The Metropolitan Quartet recorded the harmonized sentimental minstrel version in 1918, which has been digitized for online listening at the University of California at Santa Barbara.[3]
Performers modified the lyric over the years, eliminating Hays' "darky" dialect along with the original reference to slavery. For example, the "old master and mistress" became the narrator's parents in mid-20th century bluegrass versions.
Fiddlin' John Carson's recording of "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" was one of the first commercial recordings by a rural white musician.[4] Its popularity ensured that the industry would continue recording rural folk songs. The only known recording of banjo player Uncle John Scruggs was a newsreel film performance of this song.
^Thorp, N. Howard (1908). Songs of the Cowboys. New Mexico: News Print Shop. pp. xviii–xviv. Again, others have been built upon well-known airs; 'The Cowboy's Dream' is sung to the tune of 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,' and Jack Thorp's 'Little Joe, the Wrangler' was composed to the tune of 'The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane'.
^"Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane, The". www.csufresno.edu. Retrieved May 25, 2021.[dead link]
^University of California, Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Collections (Nov 16, 2005). "Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project". cylinders.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
^Carlin, Richard (2002). Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary. Oxfordshire: Routledge. p. x. ISBN 0415938023. One artist whom Brockman recommended was a fifty-plus-year-old fiddler and sometime house painter named Fiddlin' John Carson; the Okeh label dutifully made a custom record of Carson singing the late-nineteenth-century popular song 'The little Old Log Cabin in the Lane' for Brockman to sell, but didn't even bother to assign a master number or affix a label to the 500 records pressed for him. It was only after the record became a regional hit that the light bulb of commerce lit up in the executives' heads, and suddenly they were scouring the countryside for entertainers.
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