WE CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY

 WE CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY 

(HYMN)

Though we may not change the cottage 
For a mansion tall and grand, 
Or exchange a little grass lot 
For a boundless stretch of land. 
Yet there's something brighter, nearer, 
Than the wealth we'd thus command.

Though we have no means to purchase

Costly pictures rich and rare, 

Though we have no silken hangings 

For the walls so cold and bare, 

We can hang them o'er with garlands, 

For flowers bloom everywhere.

We can always make home cheerful 

If the right course we begin; 

We can make its inmates happy 

And their truest blessings win; 

It will make the small room brighter 

If we let the sunshine in.

As we gather round the fireside,

When the evening hours are long, 

We can blend our hearts and voices 

In a happy, social song; 

We can guide some erring brother, 

Lead him from the path of wrong.

We may fill our home with music 

And with sunshine brimming o'er, 

If against all dark intruders 

We will firmly shut the door; 

Yet should evil shadows enter 

We must love each other more.

There are treasures for the lowly

Which the grandest fail to find; 

There's a chain of sweet affection 

Binding friends of kindred mind; 

We may reap the choicest blessings 

From the poorest lot assigned. 

Author -Unknown  THE NATIONAL SONG OF THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA AND THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA- THE NATIONAL INDIAN SONG OF THE NORTHERN AMERICAN TRIBES.

THE ORIGINAL HYMN AND SONG IN THIS HISTORICAL ARTICLE IS PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL JUNE 1921

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND AND PUBLISHED  IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS THE ORIGINAL NATIONAL SONG OF THE NORTHERN AMERICAN NATIVE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE STATES OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA,

THE ORIGINAL  HYMN, NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTH DAKOTA STATE INDIAN TRIBES WAS  RECOMMENDED TO THE PURITAN SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  THE ORIGINAL RECITATION AND THE MOTION SONG OF THE NORTHERN AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES AND THE HISTORICAL HYMN OF THE PURITANS OF NORTH AMERICA, WAS  SUGGESTED TO THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS  THE  RECITATION AND THE  MOTION SONG  IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL JUNE 1921

THIS HYMN WAS AS WELL RECOMMENDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS THE MOTION SONG FOR THE PLAY ABOUT THE PILGRIMS FOR THE CELEBRATIONS OF THE GATHERINGS OF THE FARMERS AND WOMENS CLUBS AS WELL AS THE MOTION SONGS  OF THE THANKSGIVING DAY CELEBRATIONS AND THE CELEBRATION OF THE  COLUMBUS DAY.