Ballad included in letter from Leander F. Crumley
to his wife Nancy E. Crumley
April 13th, 1862

 

Home Home Home to my Mother in heaven

O father come an kiss me once more an watch by my bed jest to night
your ____ will walk through the valy of death __ __ ____ in the sweet sabath light

O father I am going to mother so dear I dream that I saw her last night
an over the river sweet voises I here they call me to mansion of light

Home home home to my mother in heaven

O father what nuse shall I take to jesus and mother for you
I'll tell him to send the holy angles of life to bless an to comfort you to

O father I am going to mother so dear I dream that I saw her last night
an over the river sweet voises I hear they call me to mansions of light

home home home to my mother in heaven

Our home hear ar lonly an dark and often we are hungry and cold
but ____ go home to my mother to night Wher I pleasure ar pure than gold

O father I am going to mother so dear I dream that I saw her last night
an over the river sweet voises I hear they call me to mansions of light

home home home to my mother

O father dear father once more of jeses I pray you to think
an when I am gone to my mother to night father please give up your drink

O father i am going to mother so dear I dream that I saw her last night
an over the river sweet voises i hear thay call me to mansions of light

home home home to my mother in heaven

O father dear father once more please read in my bible an think
no dronkard can enter the kingdom of heaven o God keeps my father from drink

O father I am going to mother so dear I dream that i saw her last night
and over the river sweet voises i hear thay call me to mansions of light

home home home to my mother in heaven

 

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Crumley family papers transcribed and contributed by
Christine Crumley Brown


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