There’s a lamp shining bright in a cabin,
In a window it’s shinin for me
And I know that my mother is prayin’,
For the boy she is longing to see
When it’s lamp lighting time in the valley
Still in dreams I go back to my home
I can see that old lamp in the window
It will guide me wherever I roam
In the lamp light each night I can see her,
As she rocks in her chair to and fro
Though she prays that I’ll come back to see her
Still I know that I never can go
When it’s lamp lighting time in the valley
Still in dreams I go back to my home
But I’d sinned against my home and my loved ones
and now I must evermore roam.
So she lights up her lamp and sits waiting
For she knows not the crime that I’ve done
So I’ll change all my ways and I’ll meet her
Up in Heaven when life’s race is run
When it’s lamp lighting time in the valley
Still in dreams I go back to my home
I can see that old lamp in the window
It will guide me wherever I roam