Charles Ives - Down East
Come with strains of childhood
Come with tunes we sang in school days
And with songs from mother's heart;
Way down east in a village by the sea
Stands an old, red farm house
That watches o'er the lea;
All that is best in me
Lying deep in memory
Draws my heart where I would be
Nearer to thee
Ev'ry Sunday morning
When the chores were almost done
From that little parlor
Sounds the old melodeon
"Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee,"
With those strains a stronger hope
Comes nearer to me
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