A song and chorus from 1896
Words and music by Paul Dresser
The sheet music:
Lyrics
1. I wandered home from business cares
And sat down by the fire
I watched the fitful flames until
My eyes began to tire
My thoughts went back into the past
To days of long ago
How long I sat, I cannot tell
The lights were burning low, when
CHORUS
My mother placed her arms around me
And called me her darling boy
My mother smiled as she always did
On her first love, her only joy
My mother pressed me to her breast
Was kissing my tears away
When I awoke and found t’was but
A dream of my boyhood days
2. It seemed I heard my mother tell
The old tales one by one
It seemed I heard the same sweet prayer
“On earth Thy will be done”
It seemed that ’round her sad, sad face
There shone a golden gleam
Of heavenly light that winter’s night
I can’t forget that dream, when