Far from the Home I Love

So you are leaving your home to join that hero of yours

But why won't you tell me where he is?

It is far, Papa, terribly far

He was arrested

He is in a settlement in Siberia

Siberia!

And he asked you to join him in that frozen wasteland, and marry him there?

No, Papa, he did not ask me to go

I want to go

But Hodel, baby...

But Papa...

How can I hope to make you understand

Why I do what I do?

Why I must travel to a distant land

Far from the home I love

Once I was happily content to be

As I was, where I was

Close to the people who are close to me

Here in the home I love

Who could see that a man would come

Who would change the shape of my dreams?

Helpless now I stand with him

Watching older dreams grow dim

Oh, what a melancholy choice this is

Wanting home, wanting him

Closing my heart to every hope but his

Leaving the home I love

There where my heart has settled long ago

I must go, I must go

Who could imagine I'd be wandering so

Far from the home I love?

Yet there with my love, I'm home

Well, give him my regards, this Moses of yours

I always thought he was a good man

Tell him I rely on his honor to treat my daughter well

Tell him that

Papa, God alone knows when we shall see each other again

Then we will leave it in his hands

There where my heart has settled long ago

I must go, I must go

Who could imagine I'd be wandering so

Far from the home I love?

Yet there with my lover, I'm home