From the 1940 film “Cabin in the Sky”.
Words by John Latouche.
Music by Vernon Duke.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
In this cloudy sky overhead now
There’s no guiding star I can see
I would be lost by each wild tempest tossed
If I didn’t know of a place we two can go
Chorus
There’s a little cabin in the sky
Baby, for me and for you
I feel that it’s true somehow
Can’t you see that cabin in the sky
Baby, an acre or two of heavenly blue to plow
We will be oh so gay
Eat fried chicken ev’ry day
As the angels go sailing by
That is why my heart is flying high
Baby, ’cause I know we’ll have
A cabin in the sky
Chorus
There may be a cabin in the sky
Baby, yet I am a boy who’s headed for joy below
There may be an acre way up high
Baby, but I ain’t got wings
And I want the things I know
I done heard preachers pray
‘Bout that chicken ev’ry day
But I’d settle for gravy now
Since I guess I’ll never learn to fly
Baby, I’m jes passing by
That cabin in the sky