This song goes way back but the only person I ever heard sing it is my brother and he doesn't know where it came from or does he know all of the song. two verses that I have go like this, and the words are probably not all correct.

So you're going to leave the old home,
Jim, today your going away.
Your going among those city folks to dwell.
Softly spoken dear old mother to her boy one summer day.
She said these words then she said good-bye.

When sickness overtakes you,
And ..............break you.
And through this world you wonder all alone.
Where friends you haven't any, and your pocket not a penny.
There's a mother always waiting at home sweet home.

Please help if you can. Love this old folk saga.