No One to Welcome Me Home

Sung by Jane Turriff:

This is another song from Jane’s aunts, Nellie and Lizzie: “Ma father aye made me sing this” She calls it “another old Scottish song”, as opposed to a North East song or a ballad.

Ther'll be No One to Welcome You Home

1: Out in the twilight, I pray sadly roam,
Far from my own folks az home.
Fatherless an motherless, sadly I roam,
For there'll be no one to welcome me home.
There'll be no one to welcome me home, far away,
There'll be no one to welcome me home,
But when the big ship returns to the land of your birth
There'll be no one to welcome me home.

2: With the lady at the pier, she held a hankie to her eyes,
As the vessel dashed into the waves,
Crying, “Son, do not go to that land far away
And leave your poor mother in tears.”

3: “For there'll be no one to welcome you home, far away,
There'll be no one to welcome you home;
When the big ship returns, to the land of your birth
There'll be no one to welcome you home.”

Recorded by Ailie Munro and Tom Atkinson, 1975
School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh.