There's a lamp shining bright in a cabin
In the window it's shining for me
And I know that my mother is praying
For the boy she is longing to see
In the lamplight each night I can see her
As she runs
In her chair to and fro
Though she prays that I'll come back to see her
Still I know that I never can go
When it's lamplighting time
In the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home
I can see that old lamp
In the window
It will guide me wherever I roam
When it's lamplighting
Time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home
But I've sinned against my home
And my loved one
And now I must ever more roam
But I've sinned against my home