The Carter Family – Little Log Cabin By The Sea (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
                               C              G
There is a precious volume all fingerworn and old

                                D
In that little log cabin by the sea

   G                           C                 G
It is the old, old Bible, more precious now than gold

                       D              G
It's the Bible that my mother gave to me
[Chorus]
        C                          G
Tis the old precious bible blessed bible

         D                        G
That she read in the cabin by the sea (by the sea)

                                C
The precious precious bible the blessed blessed bible

    G             D              G
The bible that my mother gave to me
[Verse 2]
                                 C                G
How often I have listened to the tempest howl and rage

                                    D
'Round that little log cabin by the sea

   G                         C               G
My mother read of Jesus, who walked upon the waves

                     D          G
How Jesus calmed the stormy Galilee
[Chorus]
        C                          G
Tis the old precious bible blessed bible

         D                        G
That she read in the cabin by the sea (by the sea)

                                C
The precious precious bible the blessed blessed bible

    G             D              G
The bible that my mother gave to me
[Instrumental] G C G D G C G D G [Verse 3]
                             C                 G
How often, oh, how often she read that glowing word

                                         D
With the message from the precious word above

   G                            C              G
It told of faithful Daniel, who trusted in the Lord

                        D                G
While she led me in the pathway that she trod
[Chorus]
        C                          G
Tis the old precious bible blessed bible

         D                        G
That she read in the cabin by the sea (by the sea)

                                C
The precious precious bible the blessed blessed bible

    G             D              G
The bible that my mother gave to me
[Instrumental] G C G D G C G D G [Verse 4]
                            C                G
There is no other volume so precious as this book

                                   D
It tells me how to live and how to die

   G                          C                  G
It tells me of that city, oh, wondrous, wondrous book

                       D                 G
And that I'll meet the loved ones by and by
[Outro]
        C                          G
Tis the old precious bible blessed bible

         D                        G
That she read in the cabin by the sea (by the sea)

                                C
The precious precious bible the blessed blessed bible

    G             D              G
The bible that my mother gave to me