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.