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Thread #123386   Message #3243761
Posted By: GUEST,Rebecca Armstrong
23-Oct-11 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
Subject: ADD: Farewell to the House (Caswell?)
Hi Allison ~ Just came across your post while looking for more verses to this song. Here is what my sister, Jennifer Armstrong, remembered of it (and she recalls it being attributed to Chris Caswell - though I can't find it listed on his website. Anybody else know anything?)
Rebecca Armstrong (rdaconnect@gmail.com)

FAREWELL TO THE HOUSE
by Chris Caswell (?)

Farewell to the House – Remember its blessings;
Take leave of the roses and lilies also;
Go past the fields that as children we treasured,
For we live now beyond all we know.

Chorus:
May we find home, home, wherever we roam;
Though night and storm lie between us.
Home, home, - the morning will come,
With friends to restore us again.

Here's to the stories that cling to its chimneys;
Here's to the dances stepped out on its floor;
Here's to the families and friends that its sheltered
Whose shadows forget not its door.

Chorus