We Come, We Come

DESCRIPTION: "We come -- we come, in joy to greet you, Sweet dear old home so kind and true, Endeared by youthful recollections, In you I find there's nothing new." The singer feels he has been away a long time. "We come, sweet friends, we come."
AUTHOR: probably George E. Mills
EARLIEST DATE: 1856 (Journal of the Mary Frances)
KEYWORDS: sailor separation return home
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Pamela A. Miller, _And the Whale Is Ours: Creative Writing of American Whalemen_, David R. Godine/Kendall Whaling Museum, 1979, pp. 22-23, "Song by G. E. Mills. We come. we come" (1 text)
Roud #38069
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Song to Captain S. D. Oliver" (another George E. Mills song)
cf. "Under Way" (another George E. Mills song)
NOTES [59 words]: There is no real reason to think this is traditional. George E. Mills probably wrote it, and it never spread. But it has a Roud number, so I'm including it here because I located a printed version.
George E. Mills, who copied and probably wrote this, wrote quite a bit of poetry in whaling journals in the 1850s; see the songs in the cross-references. - RBW
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