The Little House Upon The Hill

Authors

Ballard Macdonald
Joe Goodwin
Harry Puck

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1915

Comments

The Little House Upon The Hill

By Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin, and Harry Puck

New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co (1915)

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I feel oh! so lonely tonight,
I feel all alone,
I'm just starving for a sight
Of my old Kentucky home,
I can see my mother old and gray,
I can hear the whippoorwill,
I can see a light for me
In the window of the house upon the hill:

[Chorus]

There's a light that's burning in the window
Of a little house upon the hill,
And the light will burn,
And a heart will yearn,
And it always will till I return,
For there's only one mother,
I know she's waiting still,
And she'll always keep the light a burning
In the window of the house upon the hill.

[Verse 2]

I've seen many wonderful sights,
Wand'ring on my way,
But I've spent such lonesome nights,
And been weary thru the day,
I'm just longing for a mother's love,
And I know she longs for me,
Can't erase her loveing face,
It's the sight of all the sights I want to see:

[Chorus]

Recommended Citation

Macdonald, Ballard; Goodwin, Joe; and Puck, Harry, "The Little House Upon The Hill" (1915). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 852.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/852