Home Sweet Home Song Written By Sir Henry Bishop

No place in the world is as beautiful and comforting as our home. No palaces and hotels can give us the comfort of our home. Many songs and stories have been written where the importance of home has been brought forward. We tend to forget all our worries and discomfort the moment we come home. The beautiful song Home! Sweet Home! has remained intact in the memory of the people for the last 150 years. Sir Henry Bishop wrote the song in the 1852.

From the opening lines it the poet tells that the comfort that one receives at home can never be found in any pleasures of the world. The song was picturised for the silent film The House of Cards in the year 1909. The song Home! Sweet Home was picturized beautifully. This particular song has been translated into Japanese and is quite popular there. The song is known as Hanyu no Yado. The song has been used in a number of movies like The Burmese Harp and Grave of the Fireflies.

The main phrases of the song Home! Sweet Home are very popular and have remained so for many generations. Many tend to embroider the words Home Sweet Home and make a decorative item out of it. The melody of the song has been used as a background score in many movies. This song is also sung at Japanese weddings especially at those which are celebrated in a western style.

The song Home! Sweet Home is now considered as a secular song. Through the song we come to know about the usefulness of home. It also tells us as how important a home is and how lucky those people are who have a home of their own. Through the poem, the poet tells us about a person who goes away from home, visits different places of the world and then returns back to the comfort of home. The person returns home because he missed the loving caress of his mother.

On returning home he finds that now he is the happiest person in the world. While he was away from his home he visited many beautiful places, enjoyed many luxuries but still missed his home. He did not have anybody to care for him. The poem Home! Sweet Home is suitable for any person who is missing his/her home. But one is at a loss to understand as why the Japanese consider this song as a wedding song. A home is dearer even if there are no worldly comforts. Nothing can be compared to the comforts of a home. The song is very popular in mostly all the countries of the world. Hymns