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Introduction: E A E E A E B7 E
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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.
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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.