Song 42 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors

Home, Sweet Home

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'Mid
pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;
A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home! Home! sweet, sweet Home!
There's no place like Home! there's no place like Home!
An exile from Home, splendour dazzles in vain;
O, give me my lowly thatched cottage again!
The birds singing gaily, that came at my call,—
Give me them,—and the peace of mind, dearer than all!
How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile,
And the cares of a mother to soothe and beguile!
Let others delight 'mid new pleasures to roam,
But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of Home!
To thee I'll return, overburdened with care;
The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there;
No more from that cottage again will I roam;
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home.

Music: Henry R. Bishop (1786–1855)
Words: John Howard Payne (1791–1852)
First published: 1823 (in the opera Clari, or the Maid of Milan, London)
Copyright: Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.