Take Me Back

Tim and Molly O'Brien (Take Me Back) Sugar Hill

Take me back to the place where I first saw the light

to that sweet sunny south take me home

Where the mockingbird sang me to sleep in the night

Oh why was I tempted to roam

I think with regret of that dear home I left.

Of the warm hearts that sheltered me there

Of wife and of dear ones of whom i'm bereaved

for the old place again do I sigh

The path to our cottage they say has grown in

And the place is quite lonely around

And I know that the smiles and the forms I have seen

Now lie in the dark mossy ground

But yet I'll return to the place of my birth

For the children all played round the door

When they gather while blossoms that grew round the path

They will echo our footsteps no more

Take me back let me see what is left that I knew

Can it be that the old house is gone

Dear friends of my childhood indeed must be few

and I must face death all alone