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  Nearer To Home During much of the 19th century, land proprietors and their agents did their best to entice would be settlers with often wild and outlandish promises. One newspaper in Great Britain advertised the Island of St. John (PEI) as being "Nearer To Home" than either Quebec City or Boston. That debatable piece of colonial advertising was the inspiration for this love song. Lyrics Nearer to home I heard them say Closer to Boston by several days A safer passage to America Nearer to home I heard them say The snow is deep around my door This greenwood fire is burning low What does the Springtime hold in store The snow is deep around my door Chorus: Dear Josephine my love for you Is stronger than the wind that blew My hopeless ship across the strand From those twilight fields of Monaghan That night we stood on Aspin's Quay You crossed your heart and prayed for me That I might find prosperity That night we stood on Aspin's Quay Repeat Chorus Bridge: So dark and gloomy is the forest Where my lantern goes alone But if I clear these fifty acres Some day I'll have a farm of my own In the flickering light I see your face Etched upon the frosted pane Your beauty does my hope sustain In the flickering light I see your face Repeat Chorus Twice and End Players Unrecorded Copyright Wild Garden Music (SOCAN) |