Lyr Add: Calling Me Home - Alice Gerrard

Subject: Lyr Add: Calling Me Home - Alice Gerrard
From: GUEST,Rick Pollay
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 03:09 PM

An old friend lay on his dying bed
Held my hand to his bony breast
And he whispered low as I bent my head
"Oh, they're calling me home
They're calling me home"

“My time has come to sail away
I know you'd love for me to stay
But I miss my friends of yesterday
Oh, they're calling me home
They're calling me home”

“I hope you'll remember me when I'm gone
Remember my stories, remember my songs
I'll leave them here - sweet traces of gold
Oh, they're calling me home
They're calling me home”

“So, friends, gather 'round and bid me goodbye
My body's bound but my soul will fly
My little light shinin' from the sky
Oh, they're calling me home
They're calling me home”

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Calling Me Home - Alice Gerrard
From: cnd
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:53 AM

Here's a good recording from NPR's Live Music sessions. https://livesessions.npr.org/videos/alice-gerrard-calling-me-home-by-alice-gerrard-from-wunc-music

Alternatively, here's the album version, from Calling Me Home: Songs of Love and Loss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnxFbOitT0U

Thanks for sharing your transcription, Rick.