#123 - Home, Sweet Home

Composer:
- Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
  (1786-1855), 1852
- from the opera Clari
  (The Maid of Milan)
Early Arrangements¹⁾
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Lyrics:
Mid Pleasures and palaces though I 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 thro' 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, spendor dazzles in vain,
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again;
The birds singing gaily, that come at my call;
Give me them, with that peace of mind, dearer than all.

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.
- John Howard Payne
  (1791-1852)
See also:
- #2043 - Home, Sweet Home
- #2140 - 1. Battle cry of Freedom / 2. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp / 3. Red, White, and Blue / 4. Home, Sweet Home / 5. Marching Through Georgia

¹⁾

A later arrangement differs greatly, transposed a fifth higher and having many moving notes in the harmony.

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