Episode 9 To Be Home Again Tales From the Homestead

To Be Home Again is the 9th track on Tallsome Tales.

I left my home when I was just seventeen
I knew all there was to know
I packed my bags and drove as far as I could
No one to tell me where to go

Got me a job selling gas and cigarettes
Graveyard shift was all I could find
Married the first gal paid attention to me
No one to tell me I was blind

Oh to be home again
It was heaven to me
It was my sacred ground for years
Been gone so long
Makes it hard to see
Just what that home meant to me

Thirty years of trying to make my ends meet
Creditors been knocking at my door
My wife and kids walked out on me a lifetime ago
Grief and sorrow burns me to the core

I had not seen my folks for all these worn out years
But there was nowhere else I could turn
They took me in with open arms and love to spare
Asking for nothing in return

Oh to be home again
It's heaven to me
I've found my sacred ground right here
It's taken o so long for
Me to see
Just what my home means to me

Gary Mackender - drums, accordion, organ, piano, vocals
Karl Hoffmann - bass, guitars, mandolin
Joe Fanning - electric guitar
Don Armstrong - banjo
Björgvin Benediktsson - harmony vocals