Home 1922

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 8Apr2025
2025

A firefly haunts my garden walk
Like the ghost of a baby star
Floating thru hedges of iris bloom
Now near, now shining afar
Mine the roses and mine the bloom
Perfuming the purple night
Mine the stars and the firefly
And mine the tears of delight
What if another garden hold
Roses of rarer bloom
What if another iris walk
Breathes a sweeter perfume
What if countless fireflies
Thru other gardens roam
Theirs not the spell to bring my tears
But these, Ah! these are home

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
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lyric
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Home 1922
Lyrics by Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas
Music by Alexander MacFadyen
© 1922 by G. Schirmer Inc.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 8 April 2025 at 08.48
in association with Fred Feild, The Sheet Music Singer
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James Pitt-Payne