Those whose days were like your own
Are scattered now across the years
Share no countries, plans, or times
Though once we lived on common ground.

CHORUS (after each verse):
Is someone left to know the way,
Protect us, bring us home again?
Sit at table one more time,
Sing that Stephen Foster song?

If we knew then of leaving home,
But tens and twelves are unafraid.
Foresight's dear and hindsight's not,
And far apart is how we've grown.

Roads and paths come overgrown,
Lose the time and lose the way.
Gather those around me now,
I set a table of my own.

Recordings (none online yet):
Teresina Huxtable with Carol Christensen and Liz Hood, Melancholy Baby (1986)
Ann Mayo Muir with Gordon Bok and Ed Trickett, Language of the Heart (1994)
Mike Agranoff, Straight Lines (2014)