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Lyr Req: Home Sweet Home (Payne/Bishop)

03 Feb 02 - 02:13 PM (#641391)
Subject: Lyrics request for Home Sweet Home
From: GUEST,Sue

I would like to have the lyrics for the old somg---Home Sweet Home. Thanks!!!

03 Feb 02 - 02:31 PM (#641408)
Subject: Lyr Add: HOME SWEET HOME (Payne/Bishop)
From: Sorcha

(I looked for this here, didn't find it. Hard to believe)

HOME SWEET HOME
Words, John Howard Payne; music, Sir Henry Bishop; ©1823.

‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which seek through the world, is ne'er met elsewhere.

Home! Home! Sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home! There's no place like home!

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain,
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again!
The birds singing gaily, that came at my call,
Give me them with the peace of mind dearer than all

Home! Home! Sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home! There's no place like home!

Midi file Here.^^^

03 Feb 02 - 03:33 PM (#641437)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyrics request for Home Sweet
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

It is in the DT; comes up if you type in Home (along with a lot of other songs).

03 Feb 02 - 05:28 PM (#641510)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyrics request for Home Sweet
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

Home Sweet Home in the DT

03 Feb 02 - 05:44 PM (#641518)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyrics request for Home Sweet
From: Sorcha

I did.......SuperSearch and Forum search both. Several different things; Home, Home Sweet......oh well.

03 Feb 02 - 06:26 PM (#641543)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyrics request for Home Sweet
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

Sorcha, I think I have repeated this in any number of threads- "The vagaries of Mudcat."
Does anyone remember the Japanese movie about a group of soldiers trying to get back home- the officer had taught them to sing as a choir and "Home, Sweet Home" was often repeated throughout the movie. It was an entirely different picture of the Japanese soldier from the one given in our wartime movies.

03 Feb 02 - 09:03 PM (#641636)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyrics request for Home Sweet
From: masato sakurai

It's Biruma no Tategoto (CLICK HERE, HERE, and HERE). There's a remake (1983), too.
The song was translated and introduced to Japan in 1885(?) as a schoolsong: "Hanyu no Yado". Amelita Galli-Curuci's recording was inserted in anime movie Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies, 1988).

~Masato

03 Feb 02 - 11:17 PM (#641734)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyrics request for Home Sweet
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

Thanks, Masato, especially for the one on the 1956 film. I am glad Blockbusters still has it for sale.

04 Feb 02 - 02:32 PM (#642204)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyrics request for Home Sweet
From: 53

should play Sweet Home Alabama instead.

04 Feb 02 - 07:37 PM (#642486)
Subject: Lyr Add: HANYU NO YADO (Home Sweet Home)
From: masato sakurai

It would be helpful when you see the movie. Though this contains several archaic (or obsolete I should say) expressions, which Japanese of today could not decipher, I don't know other translations.

HANYU NO YADO
(Japanese version of "Home, Sweet Home")
Translated by Tadashi Satomi, 1889

1.
Hanyu no yado mo waga yado,
Tama no yosoi, urayamaji.
Nodokanari ya, haru no sora,
Hana wa aruji, tori wa tomo.
O, waga yado yo, tanoshi tomo, tanomoshiya.

2.
Fumi yomu mado mo, waga mado,
Ruri no yuka mo, urayamaji.
Kiyoranari ya, aki no yowa,
Tsuki wa aruji, mushi wa tomo.
O, waga mado yo, tanoshi tomo, tanomoshiya.

~Masato

P.S. The spelling in my post above should have been "Galli-Curci".

12 Apr 06 - 11:17 AM (#1716166)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Home Sweet Home^^^
From: GUEST,gabrielle

I have heard a french version of this song by the Breaux Brothers (ou frères Breaux), and I would very much love to have the french lyrics. Can anybody help ?

13 Apr 06 - 10:15 AM (#1717225)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Home Sweet Home^^^
From: masato sakurai

"Home Sweet Home" by Breaux Freres is on Harry Smith's
Anthology Of American Folk Music (disc 3, track 12).

13 Apr 06 - 10:55 AM (#1717264)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Home Sweet Home^^^
From: Louie Roy

In my song book the second verse of the song should be

I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild
And feel that my mother now thinks of her child
As she look on the moon from her own cottage door
Through the woodbinewhose fragrance shall cheer me no more.

It also gives John Howard Prince credit for the words and Sir Henry Bishop
credit for writing the Music 1823

Some how this second verse should be added to what is
in the DT then the song will be complete Louie Roy

13 Apr 06 - 01:12 PM (#1717316)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Home Sweet Home^^^
From: masato sakurai

I don't beleive the "I gaze on the moon" verse was written by John Howard Payne. Earlier editions didn't contain this verse. It probably was added later. See this page.

14 Apr 06 - 08:06 PM (#1718413)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Home Sweet Home^^^
From: Bob the Postman

Another brief sample of the Breaux' version is available here (track 312). Compare with the New Lost City Ramblers' cover (track 106).