Right Here At Home.

    Right here at home, boys, in old Hoosierdom,
    Where strangers allus joke us when they come,
    And brag o' their old States and interprize -
    Yit settle here; and 'fore they realize,
    They're "hoosier" as the rest of us, and live
    Right here at home, boys, with their past fergive!

    Right here at home, boys, is the place, I guess,
    Fer me and you and plain old happiness:
    We hear the World's lots grander - likely so, -
    We'll take the World's word fer it and not go. -
    We know its ways aint our ways - so we'll stay
    Right here at home, boys, where we know the way.

    Right here at home, boys, where a well-to-do
    Man's plenty rich enough - and knows it, too,
    And's got a' extry dollar, any time,
    To boost a feller up 'at wants to climb
    And 's got the git-up in him to go in
    And git there, like he purt'-nigh allus kin!

    Right here at home, boys, is the place fer us! -
    Where folks' heart's bigger 'n their money-pu's';
    And where a common feller's jes as good
    As ary other in the neighborhood:
    The World at large don't worry you and me
    Right here at home, boys, where we ort to be!

    Right here at home, boys - jes right where we air! -
    Birds don't sing any sweeter anywhere:
    Grass don't grow any greener'n she grows
    Acrost the pastur' where the old path goes, -
    All things in ear-shot's purty, er in sight,
    Right here at home, boys, ef we size 'em right.

    Right here at home, boys, where the old home-place
    Is sacerd to us as our mother's face,
    Jes as we rickollect her, last she smiled
    And kissed us - dyin' so and rickonciled,
    Seein' us all at home here - none astray -
    Right here at home, boys, where she sleeps to-day.