Out in the Cold World

Source Recording Artist: The Bluegrass Album Band

Album: The Bluegrass Album, Vol. 5: Sweet Sunny South (1989)

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Song Details

Title: Out in the Cold World

Alternate Titles: My Wandering Boy, The Wandering Boy

Songwriter(s):

R.S. Hanna

First Release: The Carter Family (1927)

Themes: Death and Mourning, Rambling

Source Recording Details

Key: G

Time Signature: Boom-Chuck

Tempo (BPM): 129

Track Length: 3:10

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Other Singer:

Other Singer:

Guitar:

Mandolin:

Banjo:

Fiddle:

Dobro:

Bass:

Audio/Video Recordings

Out in the Cold World

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Now out in the cold world and far away home
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Some mother’s boy is wandering all alone
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No one to guide him or keep his footsteps right
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Some mother’s boy is homeless tonight
 

Oh bring back to me my wandering boy
There is no other left to bring me joy
Tell him his mother with faded cheeks and hair
She’s at the old home awaiting him there

Out in the hallway there stands a vacant chair
And an old pair of shoes that once he did wear
Empty the cradle that he loved so well
Oh how I miss him there’s no one can tell

Search ’til you find him and bring home to me
Far far away wherever he may be
Tell him his mother with faded cheeks and hair
She’s at the old home awaiting him there

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