Amelita Galli-Curci "Home, Sweet Home" on Victor 6123 (1917) John Howard Payne, Henry Rowley Bishop

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Amelita Galli-Curci

"Home, Sweet Home"

Victor 6123

1917

ABOUT THE SONG:

Lyrics are by John Howard Payne.

Music is by Henry Rowley Bishop.

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, splendor 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.

Writing the lyrics, Payne was recalling a cottage in East Hampton, Long Island.

The song was first heard in London in Payne's play "Clari" in 1823.

The melody had appeared in an early collection of Bishop's as a Sicilian tune.