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Best Homesick Songs
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,jonesnudger Date: 26 Feb 16 - 08:06 AM 'Windy Town' by Chris Rea is a lament for Middlesborough, I believe. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Joe_F Date: 23 Feb 16 - 04:29 PM The Jamestown Homeward Bound |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: kendall Date: 23 Feb 16 - 10:30 AM The town I love so well. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 23 Feb 16 - 09:43 AM I haven't read through all the previous postings on this topic, but I've loved this Jimmie Rodgers for nearly 60 yrs. Homesick Jimmie |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: gillymor Date: 23 Feb 16 - 07:36 AM This one makes the tears well up and takes me back to my childhood home in Maryland for some reason, Erin Gra Mo Chroi. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,FLUSH Date: 23 Feb 16 - 06:51 AM Across the Hills of Home, Eric Bogle |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Mehitabel Date: 10 Oct 15 - 07:33 PM Kate and Anna McGarrigle's "Talk to me of Mendocino" does it for me every time I hear it. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,DTM Date: 10 Oct 15 - 06:43 PM "The Boys Of Cally Burn" "Wild Geese" - Jim Reid "Going Home" - Runrig "The Broom Of Cowdenknowes" |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Oct 15 - 10:16 AM Thanks! |
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Subject: Lyr Add: GOODBYE TO THE LOWLANDS From: cnd Date: 07 Oct 15 - 06:44 AM Well, this version was recorded by Cathy Barton, Dave Para, Caroline Patton, David Patton, Sandy Patton, Ed Trickett, and Harry Tuft, but let me know if the lyrics are significantly different GOODBYE TO THE LOWLANDS My hometown's been tore down, I can't find my way With its high gates and houses and my grand-dad's old place And the last old log house has been bull-dozed away And lately I wonder just why I should stay Goodbye to the Lowlands and the green fields of old Goodbye to the long roads I love to roam Goodbye to the good friends and the good times I've known Rollin' away, maybe goin' home They've landscaped the cornfields, the back roads are paved And they built lots of houses with false country names Names of the farms and the fields that they've changed But they can't hide the truth with what little remains Goodbye to the Lowlands and the green fields of old Goodbye to the long roads I love to roam Goodbye to the good friends and the good times I've known Rollin' away, maybe goin' home There's a lot I remember when I told him goodbye With the deep hurt of parting, I was too lost to cry There's a lot I remember for a place and a time They're gone like the rains that once passed in the night Goodbye to the Lowlands and the green fields of old Goodbye to the long roads I love to roam Goodbye to the good friends and the good times I've known Rollin' away, maybe goin' home Goodbye to the Lowlands and the green fields of old Goodbye to the long roads I love to roam Goodbye to the good friends and the good times I've known Rollin' away, maybe goin' home Goodbye to the Lowlands and the green fields of old Goodbye to the long roads I love to roam Goodbye to the good friends and the good times I've known Rollin' away, maybe goin' home Lyrics transcribed by ear from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ2czPhGp8o |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 07 Oct 15 - 05:06 AM The May Morning Dew. A sad reminder that you cannot step into the same river twice. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: PHJim Date: 06 Oct 15 - 11:27 PM Home by The Cheap Suit Serenaders |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Jack Campin Date: 06 Oct 15 - 04:46 PM This is a classic nostalgia song for Arabic-speaking exiles from the Middle East: Fairouz: Nassam Aleyna El Hawa lyrics and translation staff notation Fairouz is a Lebanese Christian, but the song has always been popular with Palestinians of all persuasions. Just about all Syrians will know it. It would be a good one to know if you're somewhere Syrian refugees will go to. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Sir Roger de Beverley Date: 06 Oct 15 - 10:44 AM This one from the Kings of Convenience is pretty nice. It is called "Homesick" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oll6UfK6iUg R |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HOME (Van Steeden/Clarkson/Clarkson) From: PHJim Date: 06 Oct 15 - 08:57 AM Has the song "Home" been mentioned? I learned it from a Cheap Suit Serenaders record. I included chords for one of my students who wanted to learn the song. Home Van Steeden, Clarkson, Clarkson 1931 from R. Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders (G) When shadows (F#) fall And (Am7) trees whisper, (Bbm7) "Day is (Bm7) end(D7)ing", (Am7) My thoughts are (Bbm7) ever (Bm7) wen(D7)ding (G) Home.(G#°) (Am7) (D7) (G) When crickets (F#) call, My (Am7) heart is for(Bbm7)ever (Bm7) year(D7)ning (Am7) Once more to (Bbm7) be re(Bm7)turning (G) Home. (C) (G) (G7) (C) When the hills conceal the setting (G) sun, (C) (G) (G7) (C) Stars begin a-peeping, one by (D7) one. (D#7) (D7) (G) Night covers (F#) all, And (Am7) though fortune (Bbm7) may for(Bm7)sake (D7) me, (Am7) Sweet dreams will (Bbm7) ever (Bm7) take (D7) me (G) Home. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Young Buchan Date: 05 Oct 15 - 04:16 PM Bert has already had Miner's Dam of Home, so I'll bid Song of the Thrush. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Oct 15 - 11:25 AM Anyone have lyrics to a song referenced upthread? Craig Johnson's "Goodbye to the Lowlands" ~S~ |
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Subject: Lyr Add: WEST VIRGINIA CHOSE ME (Colleen Anderson) From: Janie Date: 19 May 14 - 11:12 PM Another song specifically about West Virginia that always makes me want to cry (and fills me with guilt that I have such longing, but don't really ever want to have to move back - I just always want to be from there.) WEST VIRGINIA CHOSE ME By Colleen Anderson Someone's always leaving here, it's just that kind of place It's just that kind of world today you learn to live with loss The grass is always greener there, just on the other side The air is always cleaner there, the sky is twice as wide I'm not the type to argue, I won't say it isn't true It's just the kind of place for passing through. Tom's in California now, and John's up north in Maine Will went down to Raleigh, says he won't be back again Annie's in Chicago and she likes it by the lake Even Katie crossed the border, finally made the break And if I had a dollar for every time I've said goodbye There's nothing in this world I couldn't buy. Chorus But a few of us are staying and it's not a point of choice It's not we who do the choosing we are chosen by the place And West Virginia Chose Me, sure as my own mother knows me If I leave you West Virginia, it don't matter where I roam I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm coming home. They say home is where the heart is, and I guess that's true enough But the heart's a stubborn muscle and there's no explaining love I dream of higher mountains, and a cottage by the sea But West Virginia won't let go of me. Chorus And a few of us are staying and it's not a point of choice It's not we who do the choosing we are chosen by the place And West Virginia Chose Me, sure as my own mother knows me If I leave you West Virginia, it don't matter where I roam I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm coming home. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: YOU GAVE ME A SONG (Alice Gerrard) From: Janie Date: 19 May 14 - 11:02 PM From the same album as Hazel Dickens "West Virginia, Oh My Home" (and that is a great one for this expat West Virginian) is another, this one written by Alice Gerrard. YOU GAVE ME A SONG We used to be a family In our little cabin home Whose windows they are broken And whose chimney's dark and cold But jobs were hard to find back then It wasn't easy to survive So one by one we all left home To change our way of life. I got a job in a factory On that old assembly line Gonna climb on up the hill And leave my past behind But the only climbing that I did Was five flights up the stairs And the past I thought I'd left behind Went with me everywhere. -------------- Chorus: Cause you gave me a song Of a place that I call home A song of then A song of now A song of yet to come --------------- So here we are my past and me A-working in this bar Sing a song of broken hills And streams that once ran clear Sing a song of you my friend Lonely like me The city's taken all we had But sweet sad memories. But someday I'll go home again Lord, it's been a long hard road I'm not sayin' that I'll stay But I know now if I go I'm gonna take you on with me And what you gave when I was young Others held me for a while But you held me all along ------------- repeat Chorus |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Joe_F Date: 19 May 14 - 09:09 PM Einmal werden froh wir sagen: "Heimat, du bist wieder mein!" -- Die Moorsoldaten |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Steve Gardham Date: 19 May 14 - 06:11 PM It has had one mention earlier under another title but Payne and Bishop's 'Home, Sweet Home' has got to be one of the earliest of its type, from the early nineteenth century. Bishop's tune in particular is iconic. Funnily enough the 18th century is chock full of sentimental twaddle, but I can't remember seeing much about homesickness, plenty of sickness evoked though. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: ranger1 Date: 08 Aug 12 - 09:01 PM Dark Island Caledonia Scarborough Settler's Lament Highland Widow's Lament - that last one kills me, she's lost everything, husband, house, and homeland. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Joybell Date: 08 Aug 12 - 08:36 PM Isle of Beauty Fare Thee Well by Thomas Haynes Bayley |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Joe_F Date: 08 Aug 12 - 08:29 PM It's a long way to Tipperary. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Bert Date: 08 Aug 12 - 12:10 PM The miner's dream of home. Away out on the mountain. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner. The Ship John B. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,nathan Date: 07 Aug 12 - 01:50 PM my tenesse moutain home dolly parton |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Joe_F Date: 10 Jun 11 - 08:30 PM "The Idiot" by Stan Rogers. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,TomC Date: 10 Jun 11 - 12:40 PM I'm Going Home by Jon Chandler. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 10 Jun 11 - 10:51 AM These may duplicate others; if so, sorry. I Left My Heart in San Francisco My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight Take Me Back to Tulsa Saginaw, Michigan I'm On a Hill Overlooking El Cajon (So far it consists of three lines inspired when I was driving home to San Diego, and actually was driving down through El Cajon...you've probably never heard it.) |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Elmore Date: 10 Jun 11 - 10:26 AM " I Wish I Were Back in Liverpool" by Stan Kelly, Sung by The Dubliners and others. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: kendall Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:22 PM The Green rolling hills of West Virginia, Utah Phillips |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Amergin Date: 09 Jun 11 - 06:10 PM Gordon's Early Morning Rain.... |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,Joe Date: 09 Jun 11 - 06:04 PM The Show Must Go On - Queen. not really about homesickness, but gives the sense that regardless of where you are, when you are, who you are, you grit your teeth and bear through it, because you will see home again, and that's all that truly counts... |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,Chef I. Etta Date: 27 Sep 06 - 05:52 PM When I here "There's No Place LIke Nome For The Hollandaize" I miss the cooking gig I had in Alaska. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,Chef I. Etta Date: 27 Sep 06 - 05:50 PM |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,lox Date: 27 Sep 06 - 05:37 PM "A song for Ireland" maybe not intended as homesick song but works well for nostalgia's sake |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,IBO Date: 27 Sep 06 - 05:29 PM IS THAT THE HALIFAX BANK IN MIDDLESBROUGH? WHY I WAS THERE ONLY THIS MORNING |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: dick greenhaus Date: 27 Sep 06 - 01:33 PM And nobody's mentioned "Heading for Halifax" |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,ibo Date: 27 Sep 06 - 01:27 PM CHRIS REA,STEEL RIVER,FOR ALL YOU BORO LADS AND LASSES OUT THERE, |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: bobad Date: 26 Sep 06 - 06:28 PM In my mind Im goin to carolina Cant you see the sunshine Cant you just feel the moonshine Maybe just like a friend of mine It hit me from behind Yes Im goin to carolina in my mind James Taylor "Carolina In My Mind" Going home, running home Down to gasoline alley where I started from Going home, and Im running home Down to gasoline alley where I was born Rod Stewart "Gasoline Alley" |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Scoville Date: 26 Sep 06 - 05:26 PM "Shackles & Chains" "When the Sugar Cane's Tall" and "Parting Waltz". At least, I think "Parting Waltz" is; my Cajun isn't so great and I can't understand most of it, but the melody sure sounds homesick. |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: GUEST,IBO Date: 26 Sep 06 - 03:53 PM CUMBERLAND GAP BY LONNIE DONEGAN MENTIONS 15 MILES FROM MIDDLESBROUGH |
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Subject: Lyr Add: FOR THE SPECIAL FRIENDS From: eddie1 Date: 22 Sep 06 - 04:00 AM This is not strictly a song about homesickness but expresses the same sentiments. Written by the late Iain Mackintosh (see his Obit). In typical Iain fashion, he was surprised that I placed such value on it – he preferred "All The Good People" by Ken Hicks but I can think of a few, a very few, people in my life I would sing this one for
FOR THE SPECIAL FRIENDS |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Joe_F Date: 21 Sep 06 - 11:25 PM Newborn breezes swell to take us To our childhood's welcome skies, To the glow of friendly faces And the glance of loving eyes. -- "Rolling Home" (to various places) It's sugarin' time up country, though, an' memories like the sap Rise up and set me longin' for Mother Nature's lap, An him an' Jim -- the farm, the hens, the horses in the stall. I wisht Josiah and me was back, a-workin' hard and all. -- "In Sugarin' Time" by Helen Winslow, set to music by Margaret MacArthur of blessed memory |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: bfdk Date: 21 Sep 06 - 05:01 PM Aye, Festival Lights is a great song. Nick Keir also wrote one called "Running Home" which is on the CD "Where the Sky Meets the Sea". So far, there aren't any lyrics for that song on the Macs homepage, though. Best wishes, Bente |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: eddie1 Date: 21 Sep 06 - 03:53 PM The McCalmans have a great song – "Festival Lights" written I think, by Nick Keir. I caught up with them in Wurzburg in Germany when I was living there and they sang it just for me – in August – while the Edinburgh Festival was in full flow – Sods! Eddie |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MISSISSIPPI, YOU'RE ON MY MIND From: GUEST,Jim Date: 21 Sep 06 - 03:43 PM Jesse Winchester wrote this, I believe, while living in Montreal as a conscientious objector to the Viet Nam war. MISSISSIPPI, YOU'RE ON MY MIND I think I see a wagon rutted road With the weeds growing tall between the tracks And along one side runs a rusty barbed wire fence And beyond that sits an old tar paper shack Mississippi you're on my mind Mississippi you're on my mind Oh, Mississippi you're on my mind I think I hear a noisy old John Deere In a field specked with dirty cotton lint And below the field runs a little shady creek And there you'll find the cool green leaves of mint Mississippi you're on my mind Mississippi you're on my mind Oh, Mississippi you're on my mind I think I smell the honeysuckle vine The heavy sweetness like to make me sick And the dogs, my God, they're hungry all the time And the snakes are sleeping where the weeds are thick Mississippi you're on my mind Mississippi you're on my mind Oh, Mississippi you're on my mind I think I feel an angry oven heat The Southern Sun just blazes in the sky In the dusty weeds an old fat grasshopper jumps I want to make it to that creek before I fry Mississippi you're on my mind Mississippi you're on my mind Oh, Mississippi you're on my mind ©1974 Jesse Winchester From the LP "Learn To Love It" |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LONDON HOMESICK BLUES From: GUEST,Jim Date: 21 Sep 06 - 03:40 PM LONDON HOMESICK BLUES (Gary P. Nunn) Well, when you're down on your luck, and you ain't got a buck, in London you're a goner. Even London Bridge has fallen down, and moved to Arizona, now I know why. And I'll substantiate the rumor that the English sense of humor is drier than the Texas sand. You can put up your dukes, and you can bet your boots, that I'm leavin' just as fast as I can. Chorus; I wanna go home with the armadillo. Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene. The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen. Well it's cold over here, and I swear, I wish they'd turn the heat on. And where in the world is that English girl, I promised I would meet on the third floor. And of the whole damn lot, the only friend I got, is a smoke and a cheap guitar. My mind keeps roamin', my heart keeps longin' to be home in a Texas bar. Chorus Well, I decided that, I'd get my cowboy hat and go down to Marble Arch Station. 'Cause when a Texan fancies, he'll take his chances, and chances will be takin, now that's for sure. And them Limey eyes, they were eyein' a prize, that some people call manly footwear. And they said you're from down South, and when you open your mouth, you always seem to put your foot there. Chorus |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Scoville Date: 21 Sep 06 - 03:08 PM "West Virginia, My Home" by Hazel Dickens |
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Subject: RE: Best Homesick Songs From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Sep 06 - 03:07 PM The Dorset dialect poem by William Barnes ~ Linden Lea. If I hear that in May, when the chestnut candles are out, it can make me go into an instant decline. LTS |
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