Most Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Maria Hall
"Sad News From Home" (1854)
A Ballad.
Words and Music by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, 1829-1892

Boston: Geo. P. Reed & Co., No. 13 Tremont Str., Plate No. 2145
[Sources: pages 255-259 from "Songs of Yesterday" (1941);
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1.
Sad news from home for me,
Friends gather there in gloom,
Friends who have join'd in glee,
Oft, in that cottage home;
But oh! how chang'd that home is now,
No longer joyful hearts are there,
Withing the tomb that aged brow,
That aged Father's free from care.

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Sad news from home,
Friends gather there in gloom,
Friends who have join'd in glee,
Oft, in that Cottage home.

2.
Lonely a Mother weeps,
Breaking her heart in vain,
Mourning for him who sleeps,
Ne'er to awake again;
And oh! her lov'd ones by her side,
So sadly gazing thro' each tear,
Without a Father for their guide,
Can ne'er again feel happy here.

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3.
Far, far away I roam,
Far from my native land,
Oft, will I sigh for home,
Sigh for each kindred hand;
Tho' I man ne'er again behold,
The home and friends so dear to me,
There is a Heaven we are told,
Where all that's good on Earth shall be.

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