Home By The Sea - The Carter Family

There’s a lonely cottage by the seaside

Where the water lilies strew the shore

It was there I passed my happy childhood

With a loved one 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 home, my dear old cottage home

Oh-le-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-ee

Ah-lee-oh-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-e-ee

Many years have passed since there I wandered

But the old cot' ne’er has been forgot

And my heart in fancy oft 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 home, my dear old cottage home

Oh-le-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-ee

Ah-lee-oh-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-e-ee

Yes, my heart is like a humming sea shell

That tells of its birth where e’er it roams

I will sing of my cottage by the seashore

Of 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 home, my dear old cottage home