For more than 40 years, EKU Football has celebrated each gridiron victory with its own heart-felt rendition of Cabin on the Hill, a country tune made famous by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. This song was first sung in the Eastern locker room beginning in 1967 by linebacker Paul Hampton who came to EKU from Belfry, Ky. The song has evolved into a more modern, upbeat version and has been led in recent years in the Colonel locker room and, on occasion, on the playing field by team chaplain Howard Miller who played defensive tackle at EKU from 1972-75.
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Cabin on the Hill Lyrics
There's a happy childhood home in my memory I can see
Standing out upon the hill 'neath the shadow of the tree
If I only had my way it would give my heart a thrill
Just to simply wander back to the cabin on the hill.
Oh I want to wander back to the cabin on the hill
'Neath the shadow of the tree I would like to linger still
Just to be with those I love joy my heart would over fill
Just to simply wander back to the cabin on the hill
But the saddest of it all I can never more return
To that happy childhood home matters not how much I yearn
If I only had my way it would give my heart a thrill
Just to simply wander back to the cabin on the hill
