"Home Sweet Home"

Hi, my name is Lori Ann Blakeley.

Welcome to my Web site developed and maintained on my behalf by my father, Larry Blakeley. http://www.royblakeley.name/larry_blakeley/larryblakeley_photos_jpeg.htm

My father also manages the following Web sites:

Larry Blakeley (Contact Info: larry at larryblakeley.com)

Major Roy James Blakeley (USAF - KIA) (December 10, 1928 - July 22, 1965) - my grandfather

Leslie Blakeley Adkins - my older sister

Evan Blakeley- my younger brother

A Web page for giving notices of interest to visitors here. http://www.loriblakeley.name/notices_of_interest.htm

Various letters and notes here. http://www.loriblakeley.name/various_notes_letters.htm

What my brother, Evan Blakeley is up to with his baseball. http://www.evanblakeley.name

My mother's walking club for the students at Cockrell Hill Elementary School, DeSoto, Texas http://www.loriblakeley.name/article_dallas_morning_news_jackie_blakeley20070601.htm

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'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.

Home, home, sweet, sweet, home!
There's no place like home!
There's no place like home!

An exile from Home, splendour dazzles in vain,
Oh! give me my lowly thatch'd cottage again!
The birds singing gaily that came at my call,
Give me them with the peace of mind, dearer than all.

Home, home, sweet, sweet, home!
There's no place like home!
There's no place like home!

How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile,
And the cares of a mother to soothe and beguile!
Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam,
But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home!
Home, home, sweet, sweet, home!
There's no place like home!
There's no place like home!

To thee I'll return, overburdened with care;
The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there;
No more from that, cottage again will I roam;
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Home, home, sweet, sweet, home!
There's no place like home!
There's no place like home!

- "There's No Place Like Home (Home, Sweet Home)" by Henry Rowley Bishop, with words by John Howard Payne (Cincinnati, 1852).

For a listing of other songs of inspiration and truth please go here http://www.royblakeley.name/larry_blakeley/songs.htm

MP3 audio file (2.1 MB) http://www.loriblakeley.name/loriblakeley_music/home_sweet_home.mp3

Performed by Caroline Moseley, a performer and scholar of 19th-century American popular song, particularly interested in parlor songs and songs of the Civil War. Most of her presentations include lecture and performance. For 19th-century programs, and for the songs in this site, she accompanies herself on a 1912 Martin parlor guitar. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/sentimnt/moseley.html

"ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND" http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11 Lewis Carroll, The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0," - played as background music as Alice passes the Home Sweet Home sign.

“Sweet Home” associates Jesus with the comfort of home. The song comes from a German-American tunebook Deutsches Choralbuch (Cincinnati, 1852). The original tune was composed by an Englishman, Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855), for his opera Clari, the Maid of Milan, of 1821, and the familiar words were added in 1823 by the American author and actor John Howard Payne (1792-1852). http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/lic/lectures/hughkinglecture.htm