Home, Sweet Home

Dorothy and Toto Dolls

Madame Alexander 

'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, splendor dazzles the vain;

Oh, 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!

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,

And she looks on that moon from her 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 pleasure to roam,

But give me, oh, give me, the pleasure 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!

"There's no place like home".

"Home, Sweet Home"

John Howard Payne

(1822)