Home Sweet Home Chords
by Cathie Ryan
Home Sweet Home by Cathie Ryan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em, Am7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse
G C G C D G
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
C G D C D G
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home
Em C D G Am7 D G
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there
Em C D G Am7 D G
Which seek through this world, is never met with elsewhere
Em D G Am D G
Home, sweet home, there's no place like home
Em D G Am D G C G D C
Home, sweet home, there's no place like home
Verse
G C G C D G
I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild
C G D C D G
And feel that my mother now thinks of her child
Em C D G Am7 D G
As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door
Em C D G Am7 D G
Through the woodbine whose fragrance will cheer me no more
Em D G Am D G
Home, sweet home, there's no place like home
Em D G Am D G C G D C
Home, sweet home, there's no place like home
Verse
G C G C D G
An exile from home, splendour dazzles in vain
C G D C D G
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again
Em C D G Am7 D G
The birds singing gaily that came at my call
Em C D G Am7 D G
Give me them and that peace of mind, dearer than all
Em D G Am D G
Home, sweet home, there's no place like home
Em D G Am D G
Home, sweet home, there's no place like home
Em D G Am D G
Home, sweet home, there's no place like home
C G D C D G
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home