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“Home, Sweet Home”

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  1. A popular song from the nineteenth century. Its words include, “Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.”


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“I liken it to being a playwright who wrote a great play 40 years ago,“ says Burkett, who actually did write a musical called “Home Sweet Home” back in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2024

In February, they moved into a renovated trailer near downtown, with a “Home Sweet Home” mat greeting them at the door.

From Seattle Times Apr. 8, 2024

Their “car dwellers” appear happy enough, putting up “Home Sweet Home” signs, but they’ve been stuck inside for years, in a striking pandemic parallel.

From New York Times Jul. 1, 2021

The video ends with Smokie doing a little jig and hanging up a “Home Sweet Home” sign.

From Washington Times May 8, 2015

“Annie Laurie” melted into “Home, Sweet Home”; “Home, Sweet Home” into “Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonny Doon”; “Ye Banks and Braes” wandered into the delicious notes of “Auld Lang Syne.”

From Girls of the Forest by Meade, L. T.

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