A popular song from 1868.
Words and music by Alice Hawthorne (pseudonym for Septimus Winner).
Published by Sep. Winner & Co.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Our feet may wander far, far away
‘Mid scenes of beauty from place to place
But time can never for one short day
The recollection of home efface
The heart may wander and for awhile
Forget its pleasure as on we rove
But o’er the features then comes no smile
When we remember the friends we love
Chorus
The friends we love, the friends we love
When we remember the friends we love
But o’er the features there comes no smile
When we remember the friends we love
- The cheerful swallow returns in spring
When sunny meadows no more are cold
And on a happy and graceful wing
Revisits newly her nest of old
And thus forever the heart will seek
With sad emotion its home afar
There is a story we long to speak
It matters little where e’re we are
Soprano sung here by the eldest Ms. Bear
Alto, tenor, and bass sung by Vancha March: