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Show HOME, SWEET HOME H I was brought up out In Kansas, H On a great big prairie farm. H And evon us a baby Music had for mo a charm. I saved my dimes and nlckles, ' 1 'BBJ And bought a slide trombone. f" , BBJ And tho first tunc that 1 tooted .'"". .H Was Home, Sweet Home. ':BBJ "BBJ And then when I got bigger B I joined a Minstrel Show; '"''''''' Pl And I tooted nnd I blntted '. H From Maine to Mexico. . '&., B I could play tho hardest music . ' ,ftH On that battered old trombone. ', BBJ Hut the one Ihlng that would stick i BBJ Was that Homo, Sweet Homo. v BBJ bbbI And tlinn I'd sen tho Old Folks; t PBj My Mother nt the' door. BBJ And my Daddy sitting smoking, BBJ Down nt the vllhigo store. ' BBJ And I iinew that they were longing ' BBJ To hear that old tromlionu, ( BBJ And' to hear iuo In tho oveningr f,V'";;f"' "- Playing Home, Sweet Homo. BBJ And then I Joined tho army, ",' f H Wont with Pershing, 'Over flioro;,'""l'V(' And I thought 1 had got rid of ,j4; 'BBbI That memory haunting nlr. ' , lH 'Till one night again I heard It, ;H It seemed to come from Heaven's " '1 ''.BBj Some (lerman boys, 'cross No Man's '''1 Land, ' Wero singing Home, Sweet Home. ' BBJ And once, when night had fallen, BBJ Jut on that' No Man's Land, BBJ I was hunting a missing Drummer, 'mU boy from our own band. . BBJ I found him lying, gasping, ' Ills lips all bloody foam. h He was dying; and was trying .mU To sing Home, Sweet Homo. . ' BBJ 'BBb So when this war is over, , BJBJ If the Lord Is good to me, H I am going back to Kansas Bfl And that home across tho sea. V . BBJ And tliero with Dad and Mother "v gBJE And my battered old trombonu " ' tflj I'll try without a sobbing, .PR? To play Homo, Sweet Home. -. t , cK Hy Wllllmn M. f'ressy ' ' lw, ?W' |