When The Shepherd Leads The Sheep Back Home (1942 version)

Lyric: Edgar Leslie
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1931, 1942
Original publisher: Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc.

Verse:

When day is ending
And night takes hold,
The sheep are wending
Back to the fold.
This rural setting
Sings out to me,
"Are they forgetting
Some absentee?"

Chorus:

When the shepherd leads the sheep back home
And it's time to go to sleep back home;
Then I set my ship of dreams in motion,
To sail the ocean,
That's white with foam.
I keep praying to my lucky star,
To return my dear one from afar,
My world will bloom with roses,
There'll be honey in the comb,
When the shepherd leads the sheep back home.