"Westering Home" is a traditional Scottish folk song that was written by Hugh S. Roberton in the 1920s.
It runs as follows: Chorus Westering home, and a song in the air, Light in the eye and it's goodbye to care.
Verse 1 Tell me o' lands o' the Orient gay, Speak o' the riches and joys o' Cathay; Eh, but it's grand to be wakin' ilk day To find yourself nearer to Islay.
The tune is a modified version of the traditional "The Muckin o Geordie's Byre", with the time signature changed from 6/8 to 3/4, and the rhythm slightly altered.
Roberton appropriated this form of the melody from a Gaelic song with lyrics relating to nostalgia for Skye in the trenches of the First World War, one of several entitled Eilean mo Chrìdh'.