====== #442 - Down On the Farm ======
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  *Composer:
    *James T. Williams, 1889
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Like a dream it comes to me,\\
And the hallowed walls I see,\\
Of the homestead where I stray'd a happy child;\\
Near the meadow by the brook\\
In a fair and cosy nook,\\
There it nestled 'mid the roses sweet and wild,\\
Like a picture bright of old\\
In its frame of autumn gold,\\
Or when summer daisies gave the place a charm;\\
Back it comes to me today,\\
Tho' I now am far away,\\
And I seem a boy again "Down on the farm."\\
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//chorus: //\\
There the sweetest days of life\\
Far from every care and strife\\
Went gliding by and brought no shade of harm,\\
Oh, I'd give this world to be\\
Once again a boy so free,\\
In the dear old homestead nook down on the farm.\\
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There a mother fond and sweet,\\
Ev'ry morn her boy would greet,\\
With a smile that only angels could bestow;\\
There she bade me sad goodbye,\\
With a gentle tearful sigh,\\
When I left my home 'mid other scenes to go,\\
She is sleeping in her grave,\\
But the lessons that she gave,\\
Come like angel tho'ts to shield her boy from harm;\\
Tho' a palace were my lot,\\
Ne'er on earth could be forgot,\\
Those delightful boyhood days "Down on the farm."\\
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Sweet vision of childhood,\\
Sweet vision of childhood,\\
Dearer than all to me.\\
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    *James T. Williams, 1889