Seeing Nellie Home

"Seeing Nellie Home" was an original American song written by Patrick S. Gilmore the 'Greatest American Bandleader'.

[1] first published in the 1850s under the name "When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home.

In subsequent versions of this song, the lyrics have been changed somewhat.

[3] Sometimes the song has been referred to as "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party."

A Civil War song, "Mother, I Am Going," was sung to the tune of "Seeing Nellie Home."