Historic Sheet Music Collection
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_on-the-road-to-home-sweet-home_percy-hemus-kahn-van-alstyne_gbia0008948b
https://archive.org/details/78_on-the-road-to-home-sweet-home_percy-hemus-kahn-van-alstyne_gbia0015540b
https://archive.org/details/78_on-the-road-to-home-sweet-home_percy-hemus-kahn-van-alstyne_gbia0033569b
Publication Date
1917
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Somewhere the stars are gleaming
Somewhere the moon shines bright
Somewhere the boys are dreaming
And thru the weary night
To ev’ry heart that’s lonely
There comes a vision fair
Just a picture of Home Sweet Home
And a loved one waiting there
[Chorus]
There’s a window light a-burning for someone out there
There’s a heart that’s ever yearning and a head bowed down in pray’r
There’s a loving hand to guide him
Where e’er he may roam
Back again to peaceful valley
On the Road to Home Sweet Home
[Verse 2]
Somewhere the day is breaking
Somewhere the bugle calls
Somewhere a heart is aching
Somewhere a tear drop falls
But there’s a smile behind it
Hope whispers “Don’t you sigh
It’s a long way to Home Sweet Home
But we’ll get there bye and bye
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Kahn, Gus and Alstyne, Egbert Van, "On the Road to Home Sweet Home" (1917). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1449.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1449
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co. (1917)
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