… for My Mother Came from There, a 1916 song
words by Joseph McCarthy & Howard Johnson
music by Fred Fisher
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. I’ve often heard my daddy speak of Ireland’s lakes and dells
The place must be like Heaven, if it’s half like what he tells
There’s roses fair and shamrocks there, and laughing waters flow
I have never seen that Isle of Green, but there’s one thing sure, I know
Refrain
Ireland must be heaven, for an angel came from there
I never knew a living soul one half as sweet or fair
For her eyes are like the starlight and the white clouds match her hair
Sure Ireland must be Heaven, for my mother came from there
2. I’ve pictured in my fondest dreams old Ireland’s vales and rills
I see a stairway to the sky, formed by her verdant hills
Each wave that’s in the ocean blue just loves to hug the shore
So if Ireland isn’t Heaven, then sure, it must be right next door
Sung here by Fred Feild: