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“My Window Faces the South” was written by Abner Silver, Jerry Livingston and Mitchell Parish. The lyric is a song of homesickness for the South as seen from a winter elsewhere: the singer looks out at snow, but through a window that faces south he sees the cotton fields he remembers, far from the Swanee, and is content with the view.
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded it in Dallas on 30 November 1938, with Leon McAuliffe taking the vocal, and it was issued on Vocalion 05161 in October 1939, paired with “Dreamy Eyes Waltz.” It is also among the Tiffany Transcriptions Wills made in 1945–48. On 13 January 1954 Grady Martin recorded it at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville with Red Foley; it came out on Decca 9-29059, paired with “Pork Chop Stomp.” In bluegrass it was recorded by J. D. Crowe & the New South with Keith Whitley singing lead, on the Rounder LP My Home Ain’t in the Hall of Fame (Rounder 0103, 1979), made at Electric Arts Studio in Madisonville, Kentucky; Rounder issued it the next year on a single, 4526, coupled with the album’s title song.
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