Home Sweet Home - "Clari" Song Lyrics

These are the lyrics from John Howard Payne's opera "Clari" c1823.

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This original version from "Clari" is has extra verses not often performed in the popular renditions of the song.
Clari is a country maiden confined at court by the Duke, who is infatuated with her and has lured her from her home with a false promise of marriage. She sings this song at her entrance in Act I.

Words by John Howard Payne, music by Henry Rowley Bishop.

Home, Sweet Home 

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

An exile from home, splendour dazzles in vain; 
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! 
The birds singing gaily, that come at my call -- 
Give me them -- and the peace of mind, dearer than all! 
Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! 

I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild, 
And feel that my mother now thinks of her child, 
As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door 
Thro' the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more. 
Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! 

How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile, 
And the caress of a mother to soothe and beguile! 
Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam, 
But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home. 
Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! 

To thee I'll return, overburdened with care; 
The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there; 
No more from that cottage again will I roam; 
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. 
Home, home, sweet, sweet, home! 
There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home!