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Thread #118415   Message #2562255
Posted By: Kenny B (inactive)
09-Feb-09 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Old Fart Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: GONE HOME (Bill Carlisle)
Hi Fossil
"Get away old man get away"
is in the digitrad under G as "Get away old man"

The songs "Last train to Glory" and

Gone Home ASB John Herald of the Green Brial Boys
lyrics & Music by Bill Carlisle
All of my friends that I loved yesterday
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)
The songbird that sings in the dale seems to say
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)

Chorus…., They've joined the heavenly fold
          They're walking the streets of pure gold
          They left one by one
          As their work here was done
          Gone home (they have gone home)
          Gone home (they have gone home)

Life here is lonely since they've gone before
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)
The old weeping willow that stands by the door
Gone home (they have gone home)
                Gone home (they have gone home)    [chorus]

All of my friends that I loved yesterday
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)
The songbird that sings in the dale seems to say
Gone home (they have gone home)
               Gone home (they have gone home)   [chorus]

From the review of Johm Heralds CD "Roll on John"
Gone Home - a song by Bill dealing with the passing on of good friends. A quite powerful song and not at all maudlin. According to the notes, Herald first heard this song performed by Flatt & Scruggs, but had the song also in a copy of the Bill Clifton Song Book put out in the fifties.

Kenny B