G                                 C            G
take me home to the place where i first saw the light
                                C
to the sweet sunny south take me home
         G                         C         G
where the mockingbirds sang me to sleep every night
             D          G
oh why was i tempted to roam

G                               C         G
oh i think with regret of that dear home i left
                                      C
and the warm hearts that sheltered me there 
     G                            C      G
of my wife and the dear ones with whom i bereft
                    D          G
for the old place i long to be near

G                                    C          G
take me back to the place where the orange trees grow
                              C
to my plot in the evergreen's shade
         G                         C             G
where the flowers from the rivers green margins do grow
                       D                  G
and spread their sweet scent through the glade

G                              C             G
oh the path to our cottage they say has grown green
                              C
and the place is quite lonely around
    G                              C          G
oh i know that the smiles and the forms i have seen
               D            G
now lie in the dark mossy ground

G                               C         G
take me back let me see what is left that i knew
                                C
can it be that the old house is gone
    G                           C         G
dear friends of my childhood indeed must be few
                   D          G
and i must face my death all alone

G                                  C          G
take me back to the place where my little ones sleep
                      C
oh marcie lays buried near by
       G                          C         G
ore the graves of my loved ones i long for to weep
                  D           G
and among them to rest when i die

G                                  C           G
take me back to the place where i first saw the light
                                 C
to the sweet sunny south take me home
         G                        C         G
where the mockingbirds sang me to sleep every night
             D          G
oh why was i tempted to roam