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Thread #51928   Message #3002972
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Oct-10 - 09:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: No place like home? / Home Sweet Home
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: No place like home? / Home Sweet Home
First I noticed that there were several songs that referred to (alluded to, mentioned, quoted, etc.) the song HOME SWEET HOME, and I thought it might be fun to transcribe them and post them here. I did a couple of songs, and then I began to wonder how many more I had to do.

Next, I thought I'd better just compile a list of those songs.

Whoa! Little did I realize how many there are! After working on this list for several hours, I'm still not finished, and I don't have a very good idea of how many more hours it would take to finish. So I'm calling a halt for the time being.

So far, I've only checked 3 web sites that have a lot of sheet music: Indiana University, The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, and The Library of Congress (LoC). Those are the biggest ones, but there are still lots of smaller ones.

Here are my results so far.

1. Songs that have the phrase "home sweet home" as part of the title.

AFTER THE WAR IS OVER (WILL THERE BE ANY HOME SWEET HOME?), by E. J. Pourmon & Harry Andrieu, 1917, Indiana.
ALL ABOARD FOR HEAVEN (ALL ABOARD FOR HOME SWEET HOME), by Billy Rose & Joseph Meyer, 1925, Levy.
ALL ABOARD FOR HOME SWEET HOME, by Addison Burkhardt & Al Piantadosi, 1918, Indiana.
BACK TO MOTHER AND HOME SWEET HOME, by Jack Frost & F. Henri Klickman, 1917, Indiana.
COME BACK HOME (BACK TO HOME SWEET HOME), by Al Dubin & George B. McConnell, 1915, Duke.
COME BACK TO HOME SWEET HOME, by Vernon T. Stevens, 1918, Indiana.
DEAREST SPOT ON EARTH TO ME IS HOME SWEET HOME, unknown, no date, LoC.
D-I-X-I-E SPELLS "HOME SWEET HOME" TO ME, by Eddie Doerr, Edgar Farran and Paul Cunningham, 1912, Levy.
DOWN THE TRAIL TO HOME SWEET HOME, by Ernest R. Ball, 1920, Indiana, LoC.
DREAMING OF HOME SWEET HOME, by Ballard MacDonald & James F. Hanley, 1918, Indiana, Levy.
DREAMING OF MOTHER AND OF HOME SWEET HOME, by E. B. Holmes, 1906, Indiana, Levy.
DREAMING OF MY OLD HOME SWEET HOME, by Geoffrey O'Hara, 1924, Indiana.
DREAMS OF HOME SWEET HOME, by Robert Goldbeck, 1879, LoC.
HE NEVER CARES TO WANDER FROM HIS OWN FIRESIDE (THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME, SWEET HOME), Felix McGlennon, 1892, LoC.
HEAVENLY LAND ALONE TO ME IS HOME SWEET HOME, C. Cook & Lottie Oakwood, 1857, LoC.
HI-DE-HOME SWEET HOME, by Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz, 1934, Levy.
HOME SWEET HOME IN MAUMEE VALLEY, by Elsie Birt Byers & Alfred Lavier Brown, 1941, Indiana.
HOME SWEET HOME SOUNDS GOOD TO ME, by Andrew B. Sterling & Harry Von Tilzer, 1906, Indiana, Levy
HONOLULU (HOME SWEET HOME), by James S. Royce & Harry J. Lincoln, 1927, Indiana.
IF I ONLY HAD A HOME SWEET HOME, by J. Johns & A. L. McDermott, 1906, Indiana, Levy.
I'M GOING TO TAKE THE TRAIN FOR HOME SWEET HOME, by Herbert Ingraham, 1910, Levy.
IN A LITTLE TOWN CALLED HOME SWEET HOME, by Walter Donaldson, 1928, Indiana.
IN OUR LITTLE HOME SWEET HOME, by Chester Rice, 1922, Indiana.
IN THAT LITTLE IRISH HOME SWEET HOME, by William Jerome & Harry Von Tilzer, 1921, Indiana.
IN THE HARBOR OF HOME SWEET HOME, by C. M. Denison & A. J. Holmes, 1910, Indiana.
INDIANA MY HOME SWEET HOME by Clifford Slider, 1963, Indiana.
IT MAKES ME THINK OF HOME SWEET HOME, by Frank D. Bryan, 1904, LoC.
IT'S A LONG LONG WAY TO THE U.S.A. (AND MY OWN LITTLE HOME SWEET HOME), by Zeph Fitz-Gerald, 1917, Levy.
JUST A LITTLE COTTAGE (I'LL CALL IT "HOME SWEET HOME"), by Al Harriman & Jack Egan, 1917, Indiana.
LAST LITTLE MILE IS THE LONGEST (WHEN YOU'RE LONGING FOR HOME SWEET HOME), by Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis, Walter Donaldson, 1921, Indiana.
OLD FASHIONED HOME SWEET HOME, by Jack Chapman, 1924, Indiana.
ON THE ROAD TO HOME SWEET HOME, by Gustave Kahn & Egbert Van Alstyne, 1917, Indiana, Levy.
ONLY A MESSAGE FROM HOME SWEET HOME, by Carroll Fleming & Edmond N. Florant, 1905, Indiana.
SOMEONE IS LONGING FOR HOME SWEET HOME, by Jack Stern, 1918, Indiana.
SOMEONE IS WAITING AT HOME SWEET HOME, by C. M. Denison & A. J. Holmes, 1912, Indiana.
THAT'S WHAT PUTS THE "SWEET" IN HOME SWEET HOME, by Mack Gordon & Ed Lowry, 1928, Indiana.
THE DARKEY'S HOME SWEET HOME, by Charles E. Baer, 1899, LoC.
THE SONG THAT REACHED MY HEART (HOME SWEET HOME), by Julian Jordan, 1887, Indiana, Levy.
THERE'S A MOTHER ALWAYS WAITING YOU AT HOME SWEET HOME, by James Thornton, 1912, Indiana.
THERE'S A VACANT CHAIR AT HOME SWEET HOME (WHEN THE WORLD GOES BACK ON YOU), by Joe Goodwin & James F. Hanley, 1920, Levy.
THERE'S NO MORE HARMONY AT HOME SWEET HOME, by Sam M. Lewis & Ted Snyder, 1917, Indiana.
WELCOME HOME SWEET HOME, by E. Richard Karle, 1919, Levy.
WHEN THE BAND PLAYS "INDIANA" (THEN I'M HUMMING "HOME SWEET HOME"), by Billy Gaston, 1918, Indiana.
WHEN THE ROBIN RED-BREAST SINGS HIS HOME SWEET HOME, by Bartley Costello & Charles E. Baer, 1901, Indiana.
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN IN SLEEPY HOLLOW (THAT'S THE TIME I THINK OF HOME SWEET HOME), by Benny Davis & Joe Burke, 1918, Indiana.
WON'T YOU WALTZ "HOME SWEET HOME" WITH ME FOR OLD TIMES SAKE?, by Herbert Ingraham, 1907, Levy.

2. Songs that have the phrase "home sweet home" in the lyrics, but not in the title.

BRAKEMAN'S BLUES, by Jimmie Rodgers, 1956, First Line of Chorus: Any old place I hang my hate is home sweet home to me, Indiana.
COLORADO, MY HOME, by Meredith Willson, 1964, First Line: Colorado, my home sweet home. Hear yourself laugh and you laugh, Indiana.
DEAR OLD MOTHER, by Lester M. Stroube & Walter A. Stroube, 1923, First Line: Down the lane I'll stroll back to my home sweet home, Indiana.
DOWN WHERE THE SOUTH BEGINS, by Sam M, Lewis & J. Russel Robinson, 1924, First Line of Chorus: It's the end of roamin', I'm home sweet homein', down where the south begins, Indiana.
FOUR WALLS, by Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson, & Billy Rose, 1927, First Line: They're playing "Home Sweet Home" the dance is over, Indiana.
GEORGIA, by Howard Johnson & Walter Donaldson, 1922, Georgia! Georgia! My home sweet home. How I've adored ya', Indiana.
I WANNA GO BACK (TO DEAR OLD MOTHER'S KNEE), by Joe Goodwin & James F. Hanley, 1919, First Line: Years ago when but a child I wander'd along the path that led from home sweet home, Indiana.
I WANT YOU GEORGIA, by Stanley Murphy & Albert Gumble, 1916, First Line: He was far away from "home sweet home" he long'd to roam among the pines of dear old Georgia, Indiana.
IDAHO, by Harry Tobias, Charles Tobias, & George J. Bennett, 1922, First Line: Ev'rywhere you roam, is someone's home sweet home, Indiana.
O GLORIOUS LAND, AMERICA, by Fred Doeppers, 1917, America, America united, thou'rt "home sweet home" to me, Indiana.
PLEASE BRING MY DADDY BACK TO ME, by Franklin Earl Hathaway & Leo Friedman, 1918, First Line: Twilight brings mem'ries of home, sweet home, Indiana.
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, by Les Brown, Bud Green, & Ben Homer, 1944, First Line: Ev'ry rolling stone gets to feel alone when home, sweet home is, Indiana.
WINDING TRAIL, by George Hayden & George P. Howard, 1927, First Line of Chorus: I'm on the winding trail to home sweet home I'm on the homeward, Indiana.