(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays

Album: single release (1954)
Charted: 8
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  • Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays
    'Cause no matter how far away you roam
    When you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze
    For the holidays you can't beat home sweet home

    I met a man who lives in Tennessee, he was headin' for
    Pennsylvania and some homemade pumpkin pie
    From Pennsylvania folks are travellin'
    Down to Dixie's sunny shore
    From Atlantic to Pacific
    Gee the traffic is terrific

    Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays
    'Cause no matter how far away you roam
    If you wanna to be happy in a million ways
    For the holidays you can't beat home sweet home

    Take a bus, take a train, go and hop an aeroplane
    Put the wife an' kiddies in the family car
    For the pleasure that you bring when you make that doorbell ring
    No trip could be too far

    I met a man who lives in Tennessee, he was headin' for
    Pennsylvania and some homemade pumpkin pie (some pumpkin pie)
    From Pennsylvania folks are travellin'
    Down to Dixie's sunny shore
    From Atlantic to Pacific
    Gee the traffic is terrific

    Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays
    'Cause no matter how far away you roam
    If you want to be happy in a million ways
    For the holidays you can't beat home sweet home
    For the holidays you can't beat home sweet home Writer/s: Al Stillman, Robert Allen
    Publisher: MUSIC SALES CORPORATION, Shapiro Bernstein & Co Inc
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