Talk:This Ole House

Analogy?

This song was always a Christian-influenced song, and was always about the owner's death. The Cathedrals and Statesmen did make it into a medley, but the original version of the song itself is no less an analogy than other recorded versions and does not differ in any way material to an assertion that the two quartets modified the meaning of the lyrics.

Youtube has a recording of Hamblen describing the incident that led to his writing the song; that recording makes no mention of him being accompanied by John Wayne on the hunting trip. But I don't have access to the original citation that is said to mention the actor, so I didn't change that part of the text. Tito john (talk) 13:07, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

The suggestion that he was with Monte Wolfe seems rather far-fetched given that Wolfe disappeared in 1940 and the first recordings of the song didn't happen until 1954.

Also, John Wayne did know Hamblen and famously encouraged him to write the song that eventually became "It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)," but whether or not he was with Hamblen on the hunting trip when "This Ole House" was written is not clear. I've heard one man who claims to have been on the hunting trip with Hamblen, but he never mentioned Wayne in his account. This man said Hamblen was staying at his family's house while running a week-long revival and that they went hunting, Hamblen wrote the song after finding the cabin with the old man dead and the dog still there, and then he said Hamblen sang the song that night at the camp-meeting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.112.160.30 (talk) 02:47, 16 August 2022 (UTC)