From the sheet music at ParlorSongs.com:

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THERE IS SOMEBODY WAITIN' FOR ME
Written, composed and sung by Harry Lauder
New York: T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, 1917.

Once on a time—it's a very long time;
It's a year or it may be three—
I was out of a job and I didn't have a bob,
When an old tar said to me:
"Would you like to come and have some fun
While you're young and stout and strong?"
So the very next day I sailed away
To this good old shanty song:

CHORUS: There is somebody waitin' for me
In an old cabin down by the sea.
In the land where I wish I could be,
There is somebody waitin' for me.

I know a cot in a very sweet spot,
And I think of it ev'ry day.
It is all I've got, my whole job-lot,
And it's miles and miles away.
There were tears and sighs and fond goodbyes
When the time came 'round to go,
But as I jog along I sung this song
To myself because I know—

I know a face it's a very sweet face
It's the face of my very best girl
I have seen all sorts in the diff'rent ports
As I've sailed all round the world
On my last trip east I'd a rare old feast
I've the taste still on my tongue
But when I sailed west to my very very best
Little girl again I sung: