This song is familiar/popular enough to have made its way into the Broadway musical “The King and I” in a certain format.
The tune evokes the sense of sentimentality for home that is a dream for many, a reality for some. Even the life of its composer didn’t match the hopes of the song itself. Yet the hope and desire to either return to a home, sweet home one once had, or to journey forward to one in the future, is eminently compelling, and fuels the continued popularity of the song:
‘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 here, 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, dear than all:
Home! Home! sweet, sweet Home!
There’s no place like Home!
There’s no place like Home!
At The Rainbow 