Hymn
Home, Sweet Home
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home;
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain,
O give me my lowly thatched cottage again;
The birds singing gaily, that came at my call,
And with them, God's peace, which is dearer than all.
Home, Sweet Home — Text from Christ in Song, 1908. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/home-sweet-home
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote Home, Sweet Home?
The words of Home, Sweet Home were written by John Howard Payne; the version here was published in 1908.
Is Home, Sweet Home public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from Christ in Song, published in 1908. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.