It's well I know that often folk keep wondering
When in my eyes a far-off look they see
What can it be the cause of all my dreaming
What is this dream so very dear to me
And truth to tell, tis often I go roaming
In dreams along the road of men
Memories, to where my heart will find its consolation
Within that lovely cottage by the sea
My home sweet home that I so fondly cherish
The dear ones there mean nothing to me


Everything to me
In all this world if there can be a heaven
I'm sure it's in that cottage by me
Tis grand to stand outside the cottage doorway
And gaze across
The cornfields rich and cold
To hear the stream go rippling by the meadow
Or watch the shepherd calling to his foe
From down the lane that winds behind the garden
The blackbird quits the smiling song
And as his music echoes o'er the valley
You smile and bless the day that you were born
Oh, that's my dream, my lovely dream of homeland
Home
And though I thought a rover I could be
It's soon I found I left my heart behind me
Within that lovely cottage by the lake
Oh, that's my dream, my lovely dream of homeland