Reminiscences of the Hoosier state, 1901.
words and music by Paul Dresser
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- With a heart full of longing, my thoughts turn tonight
Back to old Indiana
The same wayward lad in the mellow moonlight
Way down in old Indiana
There lie the scenes of a lifetime the best
There’s where I watched the sun sink in the West
And when I am gone it is there I would rest
Way down in old Indiana
Refrain
There’s where the old folks have slept many years
There as a child I learned life’s joys and tears
In fancy I see mother calming my fears
Way down in old Indiana
- It was there that in prayer I first folded my hands
Down in old Indiana
‘Twas there in my dreams I saw far distant lands
Way down in old Indiana
I see the harvest hands gathering the grain
Thoughts of the old home fill my heart with pain
But gladly would I live it over again
Way down in old Indiana
Sung here by Fred Feild: