No. 222 Beautiful Home Sweet Home
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
Beautiful home, sweet home,
Beautiful home, sweet home,
Beautiful home, sweet home,
Lord, I want to join the angels, beautiful home.
Recorded by the author from the singing of Samuel E. Asbury, September 10, 1932, as he remembered its being sung in the 1880’s in camp meetings in western North Carolina. The above is merely the chorus of the song. But it is essentially the same, melodically, as the verse. The text proceeds:
Fathers have a home, sweet home etc.
Mothers have a home, sweet home etc.
By and by we’ll go and see them etc.
Won’t that be a happy meeting etc.