ADD: Long Journey Home (Costello/Moloney)

Subject: Lyr Req: Long Journey Home
From: Jimmy C
Date: 17 May 07 - 10:56 AM

Need the lyrics for this song.
I believe it was written by Elvis Costello. ?

Subject: ADD: Long Journey Home (Costello/Moloney)
From: Ernest
Date: 17 May 07 - 11:27 AM

Here you are:

LONG JOURNEY HOME
(Costello/Moloney)

If on every ocean the ship is a throne
and for each mast cut down a sapling is grown
then I could believe that I´m bound ro find
a better life than I left behind

(CH)But as you ascend the ladder
look out below where you tread
for the colors bled as they overflowed
red, white and blue
green, white and gold

So I had to leave from my cpuntry of birth
as for each child grown tall
another lies in the earth
and for every rail we laid in the loam
there`s a thousand miles on the long journey home

Chorus repeated

CD booklet names Elvis Costello and Paddy Moloney as compoers, liner-notes indicate that E.C. wrote the lyrics.

Great Song!

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Long Journey Home
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 07 - 11:32 AM

There's also another song variously called your lone journey home or your long journey home
written by Doc Watson and his wife.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Long Journey Home
From: 12-stringer
Date: 17 May 07 - 01:20 PM

And another "My Long Journey Home" that was recorded by the Monroe Bros in the 1930s and is still a trad bluegrass standard; part of the group of interchangeable songs that includes "High Sheriff," "Deadheads and Suckers," "Cold Icy Floor," and "Gotta Travel On."

Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Long Journey Home (Costello/Moloney)
From: Jimmy C
Date: 18 May 07 - 07:58 PM

Thanks Ernest, that's the one. I hear he wrote it in 20 minutes sitting at a table drinking coffee.

Guest and 12 Stringer,
I will check out these others as well, Doc Watson is a favourite of mine and I met Bill Monroe in Toronto in late 1968. I was doing an afternoon workshop on Irish songs in Ireland compared to the same songs in Canada and how they had changed etc, It was at the Mariposa Folk Festival on Centre Island and he and his Boys were headlining on the big stage at night. A real nice gentleman.

Thanks again