. . . Don’t Forget To Come Back Home
A popular song from 1923.
Words by Gus Kahn.
Music by Walter Donaldson.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Good advice is easy to give
But seems mighty hard to take
Most of us must learn while we live
And still make the same mistake
I’m recalling words of wisdom and they came
From a silver lady in a golden frame
Thru’ the years I learned them somehow
And I understand them now
Refrain
Little Rover, think it over
Don’t forget to come back home
Fly away, you’re longing to go
Fly away, and some day you’ll know
Eastward, Westward, home’s the best word
When you’re blue and all alone
Oh! the sheep’s in the meadow
The cow’s in the corn
And can’t you hear the rooster
Telling you every morn
Little Rover, just rove all over
But don’t forget to come back home
- Don’t know why it took me so long
To learn what I know tonight
Don’t know why I just went all wrong
Before I could see the right
But somehow the lessons learned at mother’s knee
After all the years and tears came back to me
I can see her there by the door
Just telling me o’er and o’er
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: