Is this a bit of mawkish drivel, or what?

[Sandy-Wroe]

I'll take you home again, Kathleen
Across the ocean wild and wide
To where your heart has ever been
Since you were first my bonnie bride.
The roses all have left your cheek.
I've watched them fade away and die
Your voice is sad when e'er you speak
And tears bedim your loving eyes.
Oh! I will take you back, Kathleen
To where your heart will feel no pain
And when the fields are fresh and green
I'II take you to your home again!

I know you love me, Kathleen, dear
Your heart was ever fond and true.
I always feel when you are near
That life holds nothing, dear, but you.
The smiles that once you gave to me
I scarcely ever see them now
Though many, many times I see
A dark'ning shadow on your brow.

To that dear home beyond the sea
My Kathleen shall again return.
And when thy old friends welcome thee
Thy loving heart will cease to yearn.
Where laughs the little silver stream
Beside your mother's humble cot
And brightest rays of sunshine gleam
There all your grief will be forgot.

[mrs_overall]

Pah! That's not as mawkish as Mr O's favourite "sing when drunk" song

http://www.lyricsdown...y-s-child-lyrics.html

[Sandy-Wroe]

Mrs O, I bow to your superior bad taste. I'd forgotten that one. It's the apotheosis of mawkish, right enough.

[craft1948]

My favourite mawkish song is Dance With My Father Again by Luther Vandross......I blubber. I don't know why 'cos I couldn't stand my father............

[mrs_overall]

Mr O sings it (drunk) in the traditional "pub singers" voice and very rarely finishes it cos he ends up in tears.

If it's bad taste you're after, we are it!

[RJUKL]

Most Victorian poetry was mawkish and sentimental.

[Mamyalynne]

My Mothers favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq2-2xztcHY

[The.ST]

The words in songs like this one doesnt matter, but the tune is what counts.and this is a lovely tune to sing the words to. that is why it has been poular for five decades.