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Come Back to Home Sweet Home

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Title
Come Back to Home Sweet Home - Lyrics
Composer
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Lyricist
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Publisher
Chas. E. Roat Music Co. (Battle Creek, MI)  
Year of Publication
1918  
Lyrics
Come Back to Home Sweet Home Verse: After many years of lonely wand’ring, tonight I’m all alone, Seems to me the night winds bring a message from my old home. Over head the same old moon is shining, as in days that used to be, Visions seem to rise around me of my home to Tennessee. Refrain: There’s a quaint old-fashioned cabin, in the hills of Tennessee, ‘Round the door the honeysuckles twining, and its perfume comes to me. There the southern moon is shining, on the hills where once I roamed, So tonight something softly calls me, to come back to home sweet home. Verse: Mem’ries take me back to days of childhood, my Dixie home I see, Once again I hear the darkies humming, they sing to me. In the cabin door I see my mother, as in days that used to be, Seems I hear her softly call me to come home to Tennessee. Refrain
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Record Series 12/9/96
  • Series 2, Box 13, Folder 4
Local Identifier
2014_12996_107
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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Title
Come Back to Home Sweet Home
Composer
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Lyricist
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Publisher
Chas. E. Roat Music Co. (Battle Creek, MI)  
Year of Publication
1918  
Date of Copyright
1918-03-05
Lyrics
Come Back to Home Sweet Home Verse: After many years of lonely wand’ring, tonight I’m all alone, Seems to me the night winds bring a message from my old home. Over head the same old moon is shining, as in days that used to be, Visions seem to rise around me of my home to Tennessee. Refrain: There’s a quaint old-fashioned cabin, in the hills of Tennessee, ‘Round the door the honeysuckles twining, and its perfume comes to me. There the southern moon is shining, on the hills where once I roamed, So tonight something softly calls me, to come back to home sweet home. Verse: Mem’ries take me back to days of childhood, my Dixie home I see, Once again I hear the darkies humming, they sing to me. In the cabin door I see my mother, as in days that used to be, Seems I hear her softly call me to come home to Tennessee. Refrain
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 13, Folder 4
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_107
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
TitleCome Back to Home Sweet Home
ComposerStevens, Vernon T.  
LyricistStevens, Vernon T.  
PublisherChas. E. Roat Music Co. (Battle Creek, MI)  
Year of Publication1918  
Date of Copyright1918-03-05
LyricsCome Back to Home Sweet Home Verse: After many years of lonely wand’ring, tonight I’m all alone, Seems to me the night winds bring a message from my old home. Over head the same old moon is shining, as in days that used to be, Visions seem to rise around me of my home to Tennessee. Refrain: There’s a quaint old-fashioned cabin, in the hills of Tennessee, ‘Round the door the honeysuckles twining, and its perfume comes to me. There the southern moon is shining, on the hills where once I roamed, So tonight something softly calls me, to come back to home sweet home. Verse: Mem’ries take me back to days of childhood, my Dixie home I see, Once again I hear the darkies humming, they sing to me. In the cabin door I see my mother, as in days that used to be, Seems I hear her softly call me to come home to Tennessee. Refrain
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 13, Folder 4
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier2014_12996_107
Collection TitleJames Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
CollectionJames Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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