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I'LL TAKE YOU HOME AGAIN KATHLEEN
[This song was written in 1875 by Thomas Westendorf,
a public school music teacher in Plainfield, Illinois, USA. The first
public performance of the tune was in Plainfield's town
hall. He wrote the tune for his wife Jeanie, while she was visiting
her home town of Ogdensburg, New York. In 1876 the tune was one of two
most popular songs in America - the other being Grandfather's Clock]

I'll take you home again, Kathleen
Across the ocean wild and wide
To where your heart has ever been
Since you were first my bonnie bride
The roses all have left your cheek
I've watched them fade away and die
Your voice is sad when e'er you speak
And tears bedim your loving eyes

Chorus:
Oh! I will take you back, Kathleen
To where your heart will feel no pain
And when the fields are fresh and green
I'll take you to your home again!

I know you love me, Kathleen, dear
Your heart was ever fond and true
I always feel when you are near
That life holds nothing, dear, but you
The smiles that once you gave to me
I scarcely ever see them now
Though many, many times I see
A dark'ning shadow on your brow

Chorus

To that dear home beyond the sea
My Kathleen shall again return
And when thy old friends welcome thee
Thy loving heart will cease to yearn
Where laughs the little silver stream
Beside your mother's humble cot
And brightest rays of sunshine gleam
There all your grief will be forgot

Chorus


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