When The Shepherd Leads The Sheep Back Home (1931 version)

Lyric: Edgar Leslie
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1931
Original publisher: Harms, Inc.

Verse:

Vesper bells are ringing
In the chapel of my dreams;
Hills and dells are singing
Good-night to the winding streams.
Shades are falling from above,
On the things I love.

Chorus:

When the shepherd leads the sheep back home
And it's time to go to sleep back home.
On the ship of dreams I sail for hours
Around the flowers
And honeycomb.
In a cottage by an old red mill,
I see someone there who loves me still;
'Tis then my heart is saying:
"It's only fools who roam,
When the shepherd leads the sheep back home!"