My Home Of Long Ago - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
MY HOME OF LONG AGO. Copyright, 1898, by Consolidated Music Pub. Ass'n. Words by Maurice Shapiro. Music by Harry von Tilzer. 
Last night I dreamt I saw again my home of long ago. The shady lane, the babbling brook, the woods that I loved so. The meadow and the cornfield, the valley and the hill, The same old trees and flowers all seemed to grow there still, I saw the little homestead, where as a child I used to play. The same old school-house down the road, the church across the way, And in the village church-yard, beneath a mould of clay. There lay the one that I loved best, near my old home far away. 
Chorus. My home, my dear old home: my home. in days of yore; Sad recollections hover 'round me forevermore, And in my dreams I see again the place that I loved so, Where as a child I used to roam, my home of long ago. 
'Twas standing by the old school-house I saw Nell long ago, I loved her then, when first we met, 'twas there I told her so; The stream flows by the school-house, the birds sing Just as gay; Their song has lost their sweetness since Nell has passed away, And in my dreams I saw her stand as she stood in days gone by, The same old smile was on her face, the love light in net eye; She told me that she loved me as on that summer day She promised that she'd be my wife, in the old home far away.-Cho.