The Prodigal Child

Ellen Maria Huntington Gates, 1875 W. Howard Doane

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1. Come home! come home! You are wea - ry at heart, For the
2. Come home! come home! For we watch and we wait, And we
3. Come home! come home! From the sor - row and blame, From the
4. Come home! come home! There is bread and to spare, And a

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way has been dark, And ‡ lone - ly and wild.
so O pro - di - gal
stand at the gate, While the sha - dows are piled. O pro - di - gal
sin and the shame, And the tempt - er that smiled, O pro - di - gal
warm wel-come there, Then, to friends re - con - ciled, O pro - di - gal

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child! Come home! oh come home!
child! Come home! oh come home! Come home!
child! Come home! oh come home!
child! Come home! oh come home! Come home! Come home!
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Come, oh come home!

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