# The Call

- Music: Charles Villiers Stanford (died 1924)
- Words: Murdoch Maclean
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6548330

## The words

Oh! it’s home, it’s home, and only in its bosom  
would I lie, For I’m sore of heart and lonely  
’Mid the crowds that pass me by, And I long to  
hear the hailing of the kindly fishers  
sailing Where the ocean winds are wailing up  
in Skye.  
I am weary of the striving After fortune’s  
flitting smile, With the great man’s cruel  
driving And the poor man’s hopeless toil,  
And I’d be with her who bore me, with the clouds  
of heaven o’er me, And the drifting sea  
be– fore me in the Kyle.  

I can hear the voices calling From the  
homeland night and day, And their whispers  
softly falling Bid my yearning soul obey,  
So I’ll leave the teeming city,  
with its lack of human pity, And take up a  
tramping ditty, and away.  
I will take my tartan plaidie And will seek  
the moorland brown, When the moon is shining  
steady, And the stars are peeping down,  
With no parting look behind me lest the fading  
scenes remind me, Of the care that used to bind  
me in the town.  

By the crystal fountains Mid the lowland  
vales caress’d, O’er the meadows and the  
mountains Shall my steps pursue their quest,  
Thro’ Strath– more and up Glengarry,  
past Loch Eil and Achnacarry, Till at length  
in peace they tarry in the West.  
Oh! it’s hard and scarredand lonely That cold  
island in the foam, And its sons know manhood  
only That their eager feet may roam,  
Yet its mem’ries still are nearest and its  
falling whispers clearest, And to me it’s  
ever dearest, for it’s home.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).