Sitting By My Own Cabin Door (1864)

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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