Love at Home

This old song was written by John Hugh McNaughton,[1] author of “The Faded Coat of Blue” and other popular songs.

There is beauty all around, when there’s love at home,

There is joy in every sound, when there’s love at home,

Peace and plenty here abide, smiling sweet on every side,

Time doth softly, sweetly glide, when there’s love at home.

Love at home, love at home,

Time doth softly, sweetly glide, when there’s love at home

In the cottage there is joy, when there’s love at home,

Hate and envy ne’er annoy, when there’s love at home,

Roses bloom beneath our feet, all the earth’s a garden sweet,

Making life a bliss complete, when there’s love at home.

Love at home, etc.

Kindly heaven smiles above, when there’s love at home,

All the world is filled with love, when there’s love at home,

Sweeter sings the brooklet by, brighter beams the azure sky,

Oh, there’s one who smiles on high, when there’s love at home

Love at home, etc.

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[1] John McNaughton was born in 1829 and died in 1901.  The following information is from folk musician Allen Hopkins who lives near McNaughton’s birthplace: (Source: seiyaku.com)

[McNaughton] lived in Caledonia, New York, about 30 miles southwest of Rochester. John was known as 'The Poet McNaughton' for composing many songs popular at the time, though few have survived to be sung today. Other than 'Love At Home,' perhaps his most famous was 'The Faded Coat of Blue,' about Union soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. There is a monument to John Hugh McNaughton just outside Caledonia, on the site of the farm where he lived.