HOME, SWEET HOME
(Music: H.R. Bishop / Lyrics: John Howard Payne - 
adapted from the 1823 opera, "Clari, Maid of Milan")

Deanna Durbin (feat. in the film "First Love") - 
1939 Note Durbin sings only first verse in this film

Doc & Merle Watson (Instr.) - 1967
Glen Campbell - 1968
Felicity Palmer - 2007
Mike Scott & Friends (Instr.) - 2013
 
Also recorded by:
Bing Crosby; Joan Sutherland; Jerry Reed: Flatt & Scruggs;
Lawrence Welk; Elizabeth Cotton ......... and many others.


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, oh, there's no place like home

An exile from home, splendour dazzles in vain
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again
The birds singing gayly, that come at my call
Give me them and the peace of mind, dearer than all
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home

I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild
And feel that my mother now thinks of her child
As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door
Thro' the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home

How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile
And the caress 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
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like 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
Home, home, sweet, sweet, home
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home.



(Transcribed by David Story and Mel Priddle - June 2013)