The Little Ones at Home

A 1856 popular song.
Words by W. Hayes.
Music by C. L. Ward.

The sheet music:

The-Little-Ones-at-Home – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:

Little Ones at Home – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Tho’ far away from home I’ve wandered
    O’er life’s dark and stormy sea
    Many happy days I’ve squander’d
    When my heart was light and free
    I left my own my native place
    Where oft in childhood I did roam
    But now I run life’s narrow race
    I miss those lovely little ones at home

Chorus
Then what are all life’s joys to me
Since I have cross’d the ocean’s foam
Oh would that I once more could see
Those merry lovely little ones at home

  1. My Mother wept when I departed
    Kiss’d my brow and spoke farewell
    Father almost broken hearted
    His tears it seem’d a tale to tell
    I cast my eye towards my Brother
    My Sister too who sat alone
    Ever I’ll remember Mother
    And the lovely little ones at home

Sung here by Fred Feild: