IRVING BERLIN lyrics - I Love To Stay At Home

[1st verse:]

I don't go out nights

I'm not about nights

I'll tell you why I never roam

I love my home, so cozy

The dizzy night life may be the right life

But I don't like that kind of fun

At night when my work is done



[Refrain:]

I just love to stay at home in the evening

When the winter nights are cold

I love to sit around the fire harmonizing

"Darling, I am growing old"

While Mother darns my father's woolen hosiery

He's telling yarns of how he fought in "sixty-three"

I don't envy the cocktail sippers

Give me my carpet slippers

For I love to stay at home



[2nd verse:]

My cousin Mary

She's a canary

Each night she sings the Rosary

It sounds to me like Melba

When Uncle Louie who looks like Dewey

Recites "The picture on the wall"

It's simply Heaven, that's all