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    There's a lonely cottage by the sea side,
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    where the water lilies strew the shore,

    it was there I passed my happy childhood
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    with a loved one that's gone before.

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Then give me back my dear old home, that old home by the sea,
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and I never will wander far away,
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from my home, my dear old cottage home.

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    Many years have passed since there I wandered,
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    but the old cot ne'er has been forgot,
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    and my heart in fancy oft returns to that dear old familiar spot.

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    Yes, my heart is like the humming sea shell
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    that tells of its birth where e'er it roams,

    I will sing of my cottage by the sea shore
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    of my home my dear old cottage home.

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Then give me back my dear old home, that old home by the sea,
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and I never will wander far away,
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from my home, my dear old cottage home.