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    There's a lonely cottage by the sea side, 
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    where the water lilies strew the shore, 

    it was there I passed my happy childhood 
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    with a loved one that's gone before. 

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Then give me back my dear old home, that old home by the sea, 
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and I never will wander far away, 
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from my home, my dear old cottage home. 

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    Many years have passed since there I wandered, 
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    but the old cot ne'er has been forgot, 
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    and my heart in fancy oft returns to that dear old familiar spot. 

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    Yes, my heart is like the humming sea shell 
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    that tells of its birth where e'er it roams, 

    I will sing of my cottage by the sea shore 
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    of my home my dear old cottage home. 

           E                          E7                                 A                  E 
Then give me back my dear old home, that old home by the sea, 
                            A        E 
and I never will wander far away, 
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from my home, my dear old cottage home.