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Willie We Have Missed You

This was the most successful of the "Willie" songs. In less than three years from its publication in 1854, it reached a circulation of almost 25,000 copies. Background music is in the key of G

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Oh! Wil-lie is it you, dear,

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Safe, safe at home?

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They did not tell me true, dear;

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They said you would not come

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I heard you at the gate,

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And it made my heart re-joice;

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For I knew that wel-come foot-step

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And that dear, fa-mil-iar voice,

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Mak-ing mu-sic on my ear 

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In the lone-ly mid-night gloom;

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Oh! Wil-lie, we have missed you;

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Wel-come, wel-come home!

verse 2
We've longed to see you nightly
But this night of all;
The fire was blazing brightly
And lights were in the hall
The little ones were up
Till 'twas ten o'clock and past,
Then their eyes began to twinkle,
And they've gone to sleep at last;
But they listened for your voice
Till they thought you'd never come,
Oh! Willie, we have missed you;
Welcome, welcome home!

verse 3
The days were sad without you,
The nights long and drear;
My dreams have been about you;
Oh! welcome, Willie dear!
Last night I wept and watched
By the moonlight's cheerless ray,
Till I thought I heard your footstep
Then I wiped my ears away;
But my heart grew sad again
When I found you had not come;
Oh! Willie, we have missed you;
Welcome, Welcome home!
Stephen Foster's School of Music For The Harmonica


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