TO STAY AT HOME IS BEST

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;

Home-keeping hearts are happiest;

For those that wander they know not where

Are full of trouble and full of care;

  To stay at home is best.

 

Weary and homesick and distressed,

They wander east, they wander west,

And are baffled and beaten and

   blown about

By the winds of the wilderness of doubt;

   To stay home is best.

 

Then stay at home,  my heart, and rest

The bird is safest in its nest;

O’er all that flutter their wings and fly.

A hawk is hovering in the sky;

   To stay at home is best.