Juvenile Choir ‎#76

76. Why, ah! why my heart this sadness?

1 Why, ah! why my heart this sadness?
Why 'mid scenes like these decline?
Where all though strange, in joy and sadness,
Say, what wish can yet be thine!
Oh say what wish can yet be thine?

2 All that's dear to me is wanting,
Lone and cheerless here I roam;
The stranger's joys howe'er enchanting,
To me can never be like Home.
To me can never be like Home.

3 Give me those, I ask no other,
Those that bless the humble dome
Where dwell my Father and my Mother,
Give, oh! give me back my Home,
My own, my own dear native Home.

Text Information

• First Line: Why, ah! why my heart this sadness?
• Title: Why, ah! why my heart this sadness?
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1840
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: [Why, ah! why my heart this sadness?]
• Key: E♭ Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain.