T'IS Well I know that often folk keep wondering,
   When in my eyes a Far --look they see,
   What can it be the cause of all my dreaming,
   What is this dream so very dear to me ?
   And truth to tell, ti's often I go roaming
   In dreams of along the road of memory,
   To where my heart will find its consolation
    Within that lovely cottage by the Lee.
    My home sweet home that I so fondly cherich,
    The dear one there mean evrything to me;
    In all this World if there can be a heaven,
    I'm sure it's in that cottage by the Lee .
    T'is well I stand outside that cottage door way,
    And gaze across the corn fields rich and gold;
    To hear that stream go rippling by the meadow,
     Or watch the sheppard calling to his fold.
     And down the lane that winds behind,
     The black bird greets the smiling summer morn,
     And as his music echoes O'ER THE VALLEY,
     You smile and bless the day that you was born .
     And thats my dream, my lovely dream
      Of home land ,
      And tho' I thought a rover I could be,
     T'was soon I found I'd left my heart behind me ,
      Within that Lovely cottage by the Lee.
   When in my eyes a Far --look they see,
   What can it be the cause of all my dreaming,
   What is this dream so very dear to me ?
   And truth to tell, ti's often I go roaming
   In dreams of along the road of memory,
   To where my heart will find its consolation
    Within that lovely cottage by the Lee.
    My home sweet home that I so fondly cherich,
    The dear one there mean evrything to me;
    In all this World if there can be a heaven,
    I'm sure it's in that cottage by the Lee .
    T'is well I stand outside that cottage door way,
    And gaze across the corn fields rich and gold;
    To hear that stream go rippling by the meadow,
     Or watch the sheppard calling to his fold.
     And down the lane that winds behind,
     The black bird greets the smiling summer morn,
     And as his music echoes O'ER THE VALLEY,
     You smile and bless the day that you was born .
     And thats my dream, my lovely dream
      Of home land ,
      And tho' I thought a rover I could be,
     T'was soon I found I'd left my heart behind me ,
      Within that Lovely cottage by the Lee.