WILL YOU COME BACK HOME?

By Gilbert Parker

Will you come back home, where the young larks are singin’?

The door is open wide, and the bells of Lynn are ringin’;

There's a little lake I know,

And a boat you used to row

To the shore beyond that's quiet — will you come back home?

Will you come back, darlin’? Never heed the pain and blightin’,

Never trouble that you're wounded, that you bear the scars of fightin’;

Here's the luck o’ Heaven to you,

Here's the hand of love will brew you

The cup of peace — ah, darlin’, will you come back home?