THE LITTLE HOUSE UPON THE HILL
(Ballard MacDonald / Joe Goodwin / Harry Puck,   1915)


I feel oh! so lonely tonight, 
I feel all alone, 
I'm just starving for a sight 
Of my old Kentucky home, 
I can see my mother old and gray, 
I can hear the whippoor will, 
I can see a light for me 
In the window of the house upon the hill:

I've seen many wonderful sights, 
Wand'ring on my way,
But I've spent such lonesome nights, 
And been weary thru the day, 
I'm just longing for a mother's love, 
And I know she longs for me, 
Can't erase her loving face, 
It's the sight of all sights I want to see:

There's a light that's burning in the window 
Of a little house upon the hill, 
And the light will burn, 
And a heart will yearn, 
And it always will till I return, 
For there's only one mother, 
I know she's waiting still, 
And she'll always keep the light a burning 
in the window of the house upon the hill.