A Sailor's Home, Sweet Home - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
A SAILOR'S HOME, SWEET HOME. Copyright, 1891, by T. B. Harms & Co. Words by W. E. Robey. Music by Robert Recker. 
A mother sits reading a message, her fond heart is beating with joy; It tells her the good ship's returning that carries her long absent boy; It bids her be brave and light-hearted, her old eyes are filled with glad tears; She thinks of the day when they parted-she's not seen her loved one for years. Ah! little she thought she would ne'er see him more, His good ship was wrecked within eight of the shore; Her gallant young sailor went down 'neath the foam; He'd only just pictured that bright dream of home. 
Chorus. When I come back again, when I return from sea, A loving mother, with outstretched arms, is waiting to welcome me. Parted from her for years, sailing across the foam, Nobody knows a sailor's love for home, sweet home. 
She's sitting alone in her cottage, her thoughts are still out on the sea; Each footstep she hears in the distance, she startles and says, "Is it he?" There's no one to tell that his vessel was wrecked by a ponderous wave; And right within eight of the homestead he lies in a watery grave. At last she grows restless, the breakers they roar, A letter has drifted by chance to the shore; She read with despair, tho' 'tis dripping with foam. It tells of his death and his last dream of home.-Chorus.