There's a lonely cottage by the seaside Where the water lilies through the shore It was there I paced my happy childhood With the loved ones that's gone before Then give me back my dear old home That old home by the sea And I never will wander far away From my own, my dear old cottage home Many years have passed since then I wondered But the old cottage has been forgotten And my heart in fancy often returns To that dear old familiar spot Then give me back my dear old home That old home by the sea And I never will wander far away From my own, my dear old cottage home Yes, my heart is like the humming seashell That kelt off its birth for airy roam I will sling off my cottage by the seashore Off my home, my dear old cottage home Then give me back my dear old home That old home by the sea And I never will wander far away From my own, my dear old cottage home