A popular song from 1902.
Words by C. H. Scoggins.
Music by Charles Avril.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Darkness slowly gathers ’round my western homestead
‘Neath the shadow of the everlasting hills
And the crickets lonely chirping in the meadow
Makes me sad altho’ my lonely heart it thrills
For I’m thinking of the sweetheart of my boyhood
And the evenings neath the softly sighing trees
There I kissed her and I left her broken-hearted
Back among the clover and the bees
REFRAIN
There the robin sings its best and all nature is at rest
As the perfume softly floats upon the breeze
And again I long to be happy, careless light and free
Back among the clover and the bees
Verse 2
Mother kissed me as I left the dear old homestead
And I promised that I’d write her every day
And I guarded well the promise that I gave her
Till they wrote me “Boy, your mother died today”
Once again I see her sitting in the gloaming
See her white hair waving gently in the breeze
And I long to see again the dear old homestead
Back among the clover and the bees