Going Home | Antonín Dvořák arr. Lyle Stutzman | Video 3 of 3 from Lyle Stutzman's Choir

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"Going Home" melody from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, arr. Lyle Stutzman. Sung at the 18th Annual Choral Festival 2025 of Shenandoah Christian Music Camp (VA). Conducted by Lyle Stutzman. Sheet music can be purchased here:
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The Historic Faith · Hymn Companion

Going Home

Words by William Arms FisherMusic by Antonín Dvořák; melody adapted from the Largo of Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"Written 1922Tune GOIN' HOME

Goin' home, goin' home,
I'm a-goin' home;
Quiet-like, some still day,
I'm jes' goin' home.

It's not far, jes' close by,
Through an open door;
Work all done, care laid by,
Gwine to fear no more.

Mother's there 'spectin' me,
Father's waitin', too;
Lots o' folk gathered there,
All the friends I knew,
All the friends I knew.
Home, home, I'm goin' home!

Nothin' lost, all's gain,
No more fret nor pain,
No more stumblin' on the way,
No more longin' for the day,
Goin' to roam no more!

Mornin' star lights the way,
Res'less dream all done;
Shadows gone, break o' day,
Real life jes' begun.

There's no break, ain't no end,
Jes' a-livin' on;
Wide awake, with a smile,
Goin' on and on.

Goin' home, goin' home,
I'm jes' goin' home;
It's not far, jes' close by,
Through an open door.

I'm jes' goin' home,
Goin' home.

Story Behind the Song

The song commonly known as "Goin' Home" or "Going Home" uses the English-horn theme from the Largo movement of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, composed in 1893 while he was in the United States. William Arms Fisher, a former pupil and later biographer of Dvořák, adapted the theme and wrote the words, publishing it in 1922. Although often mistaken for an African American spiritual that Dvořák quoted, the melody is Dvořák's own, shaped by his interest in American folk and spiritual idioms.