Do They Think of Me at Home? (Charles William Glover)

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Editor: Stan Sanderson (added 2004-04-08).   Score information: 2 pages   Copyright: Public Domain

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Title: Do They Think of Me at Home?
Composer: Charles William Glover
Lyricist: J. E. Carpenter

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
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Original text and translations

English text

1.

Do they think of me at home,

Do they ever think of me?

I who shared their ev'ry grief,

I who mingled in their glee?

Have their hearts grown cold and strange,

To the one now doom'd to roam?

I would give the world to know

Do they think of me at home?

2.

Do they think of me at eve,

Of the song I used to sing?

Is the harp I struck untouch'd,

Does a stranger wake the string?

Will no kind forgiving word,

Come across the raging foam?

Shall I never cease to sigh

"Do they think of me at home?"

3.

Do they think of how I loved,

In my happy, early days?

Do they think of him who came,

But could never win theur praise?

I am happy by his side,

And from mine he'll never roam.

But my heart will sadly ask,

"Do they think of me at home?"