A 1864 popular song.
Words and music by Stephen C. Foster.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Werner Tomaschewski:
Lyrics
- Through varied scenes of ease and strife
I’ve roam’d the whole world o’er
But now I calmly glide through life
While I’m sitting by my own cabin door
I feel as happy as a king
And free as the birds that soar
No sounds of battle round me sing
While I’m sitting by my own cabin door
Sitting by my own cabin door
Sitting by my own cabin door - My time of life is waning fast
Upon this troubled shore
But still I smile on days gone past
While I’m sitting by my own cabin door
The waves of trouble on the sea
The whirlwinds on the moor
Can bring no sorrow now to me
For I’m sitting by my own cabin door
Sitting by my own cabin door
Sitting by my own cabin door - I’ve had my hours of grief and mirth
And felt the tear drops pour
But nothing grieves me now on earth
For I’m sitting by my own cabin door
The blooming hopes of early days
May come to me no more
Yet memory sings me pleasant lays
While I’m sitting by my own cabin door
Sitting by my own cabin door
Sitting by my own cabin door
Sung here by Fred Feild: