Welcome Home Broadside from Civil War Era - New York

Beautiful ballad sheet music titled Welcome Home . This historic document was printed by Charles Magnus & Co., NY with a vignette of a group of men and women sitting in front of a fireplace listening to a civil war soldier talk. 8" x 5".

The Charles Magnus firm was a publisher of illustrated stationery during the Civil War, making envelopes, letterpaper, songsheets, maps, prints, games, playing cards and other items during and after the Civil War.

[Illustration] Published by Chas.Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., N.Y.

Welcome Home.

WELCOME home! thou long-lost rover,

Welcome, welcome, welcome home!

All our doubts and fears are over,

Dearest one at last thou’rt come;

Oh, how we have yearn’d to greet thee,

Many a long and weary day,

And our hearts went forth to meet thee

When thou still wert far away.

Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home.

CHORUS. Welcome home, welcome home,

Thou long-lost rover,

Welcome home, welcome home,

Welcome home, welcome home.

Many years have glided o’er thee,

Since thou bad’st thy long adieu,

And the gallant ship that bore thee

Faded in th’ horizon blue;

Oft we’ve thought on that sad parting,

Seal’d by many a fervent prayer,

Oft we’ve felt the tear-drop starting

When we viewed the vacant chair,

CHORUS. Welcome, &c,

Welcome home! thou long lost rover,

Welcome, welcome, welcome home!

All our anxious fears are over,

And thou ne’er again shalt roam:

Now away with thoughts of sadness,

Let them slumber in the past;

For our hearts are fill’d with gladness,

Dearest one thou’rt come at last.

CHORUS. Welcome &c,

Ten illustrated Songs on Notepaper, mailed to any Address on receipt of 50 Cent

500 Illustrated Ballads, lithographed and printed by CHARLES MAGNUS No. 12 Frankfort Street, New York.Branch Office. No. 520 7th St., Washington, D. C.