That’s banished with bacon and beans.
But the gnawing hunger of a lonely man
For a home, and all that it means.
For a fireside far, from the cares that are
Four walls and a roof above
But oh, so cram full of cozy joy
And crowned with a woman’s love.
A woman dearer than all the world
And true as heaven is true
God, how ghastly she looks through her rouge