When It's Lamplighting Time In The Valley -Roger Wagner chorale
作詞 作曲 J. Lyons, S. C. Hart and The Vagabonds
一 There's a lamp burning bright in a cabin In a window it's shining for me And I know that my mother is praying For her boy she is longing to see (1st chorus:)
When it's lamp lighting time in the valley Then in dreams I go back to my home I can see that old light in the window It will guide me where ever I roam
二 In the lamp-light each night I can see her As she rocks in her chair to and fro Though she prays that I'll come back to see her Still I know that I never can go (2nd chorus:)
When it's lamp lighting time in the valley Then in dreams I go back to my home But I've sinned against my home and my loved ones And now I must evermore roam
三 So she lights up the lamp and keeps waiting For she knows not the crime I have done But I'll change all my ways and I'll meet her Up in Heaven when life's race is run
(repeat 1st chorus:)
歌の背景
1932年, Joe Lions, Sam heart와 無名의 chorus group「The Vagabonds」의 合作으로 되어 있습니다만, 開拓時代의 Appalachia 地方이나 中西部에서 불려지고 있던 元來의 노래가 무엇인가 있었던 것 같습니다. 現在에도, Country•and•Western이나 Bluegrass로서 자주 演奏됩니다.