Home again (Marshall Spring Pike)

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• (Posted 2023-11-28)  CPDL #77656:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 336 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Home again
Composer: Marshall Spring Pike
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 Oliver Ditson & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Home again, Home again,
From a foreign shore,
And oh! it fills my soul with joy
To meet my friends once more.
Here I dropped the parting tear,
To cross the ocean’s foam,
But now I’m once again with those,
Who kindly greet me home;
Home again, Home again,
From a foreign shore,
And oh! it fills my soul with joy
To meet my friends once more.

Happy hearts, Happy hearts,
With mine have laughed in glee;
But oh! the friends I loved in youth
Seem happier to me;
And if my guide should be fate
Which bids me longer roam;
But death alone can break the tie
That binds my heart to home;
Home again, Home again,
From a foreign shore,
And oh! it fills my soul with joy
To meet my friends once more.

Music sweet, Music soft,
Lingers ’round the place,
And oh! I feel the childhood-charm
That time cannot efface.
Then give me but my homestead roof,
I’ll ask no palace dome;
For I can live a happy life
With those I love at home.
Home again, Home again,
From a foreign shore,
And oh! it fills my soul with joy
To meet my friends once more.