Home by the Sea

[Verse] There's a lonely cottage by the seaside Where the water lilies strew the shore It was there I passed my happy childhood With a loved one that's gone before Then give me back my dear old home That old home by the sea And I never will wander far away From my home, my dear old cottage home Oh-le-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-ee Ah-lee-oh-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-e-ee Many years have passed since there I wandered But the old cot' ne'er has been forgot And my heart in fancy oft returns To that dear old familiar spot Then give me back my dear old home That old home by the sea And I never will wander far away From my home, my dear old cottage home Oh-le-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-ee Ah-lee-oh-lay-ee, ee-e-e-e-e-ee Yes, my heart is like a humming sea shell That tells of its birth where e'er it roams I will sing of my cottage by the seashore Of my home, my dear old cottage home Then give me back my dear old home That old home by the sea And I never will wander far away From my home, my dear old cottage home