A popular song from 1919
Words by Herbert S. Lambert
Music by F. W. Vandersloot
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- ‘Tis not so many years ago
When as a boy I played
Amid the scenes so dear to me
From morn ’til evening shade
No place so dear to childhood days
As my old country home
Until one day I said “goodbye”
And went away to roam
The old folks said, “God bless you boy
And may you soon return
Two broken hearts await you here
Two souls will watch and yearn”
The years have come and gone away
No news from son at home
No loving message to the boy
Who went away to roam
Chorus:
I wonder how the old folks are at home
I wonder if they miss me while I roam
I wonder if they pray for the boy that went away
And left his kind of parents all alone
I hear the cattle lowing in the lane
And see again the fields of golden grain
I almost hear them sigh
As they bade their boy “goodbye”
I wonder how the old folks are at home
- This world grows weary day by day
I’m lonely and I’m sad
I long again to see the scenes
I knew when but a lad
To play with little brother as
We whiled the hours away
No though had we of sorrow then
Our hearts were light and gay
I see again the old schoolhouse
The church upon the hill
The lane that leads to Grandma’s house
Is fresh in memory still
A wandering boy alone tonight
With thoughts of home sweet home
Still wonders how the old folks are
This boy who went to roam
Chorus:
I wonder how the old folks are at home
I wonder if they miss me while I roam
I wonder if they pray for the boy that went away
And left his kind of parents all alone
I hear the cattle lowing in the lane
And see again the fields of golden grain
I almost hear them sigh
As they bade their boy “goodbye”
I wonder how they are at home sweet home
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: