Museums of History NSW | Willie We Have Missed You by Stephen Foster @MuseumsofHistoryNSW | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
‘Willie We Have Missed You’ by Stephen Foster.
Dan Walker, tenor and guitar.

This video was recorded at home in September 2020 for ‘House Music at Your House’, Sydney Living Museums, and generously supported by the City of Sydney.

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‘Willie We Have Missed You’ - Lyrics
Oh! Willie, is it you, dear, safe, safe at home?
They did not tell me true, dear, they said you would not come;
I heard you at the gate, and it made my heart rejoice,
For I knew that welcome footstep and that dear familiar voice.
Making music in my ear in the lonely midnight gloom.
Oh, Willie, we have missed you – welcome, welcome home.

We’ve longed to see you nightly, but this night of all,
The fire was blazing brightly, and lights were in the hall.
The little ones were up till ’twas ten o’clock and past,
Then their eyes began to twinkle, and they’re gone to sleep at last;
But they listened for your voice till they thought you’d never come,
Oh, Willie, we have missed you – welcome, welcome home.

The days were sad without you, the nights long and drear,
The dreams have been about you, oh, welcome, Willie, dear.
Last night I wept and watched, by the moonlight’s cheerless ray,
Till I thought I heard your footstep, when I wiped my tears away;
But my heart grew sad again, when I found you had not come;
Oh, Willie, we have missed you – welcome, welcome home.