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22 Feb 08 - 10:53 AM (#2269591) Subject: Lyr req: Homeward Once More From: GUEST,eoin o'budhaigh Can anyone help me, I am looking for the lyrics of 'Homeward once more'. I have part of it taped (old recording - ran out of audio tape before end of song) DAMN!!! many thanks eoin |
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22 Feb 08 - 11:05 AM (#2269603) Subject: RE: Lyr req: Homeward Once More From: GUEST,Peace What's the first line? |
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22 Feb 08 - 11:11 AM (#2269609) Subject: RE: Lyr req: Homeward Once More From: Peace (Hope this is it. I have to go.) PS -- got it from an Al Stewart place. Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts The houses in Hackney are all falling down And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war Young girl writing her diary, while time seems to pause Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore Kissing the feet of England Oh the lights of Saint Petersburg come on as usual Although the air seems charged with a strangeness of late, yet there's nothing to touch And the Tsar in his great Winter Palace has called for the foreign news An archduke was shot down in Bosnia, but nothing much And my grandmother sits before the mirror in the days before the war Smiling a secret smile as she goes to the door And the young man rides off in his carriage, homeward once more And the sun sets gently on England Ah the day we decided to drive down to Worthing, it rained and rained Giving us only a minute to stand by the sea And crunching my way through the shingles, it seemed there was nothing changed Though the jetty was maybe more scarred that I'd known it to be And Mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky Where ten years ago we had stood, my Grandfather and I And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide As it rose and fell on the side of England Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights |
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22 Feb 08 - 11:37 AM (#2269623) Subject: RE: Lyr req: Homeward Once More From: Charley Noble Interesting song. Evidently composed in memory of those dark days of World War 1. I've always been haunted by Stewart's "Road to Moscow." Charley Noble |
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22 Feb 08 - 04:13 PM (#2269824) Subject: RE: Lyr req: Homeward Once More From: GUEST,mrsmac is the song your after this one?? From memory its the best i can do for now but if this is the one your after i will transcribe all for you no problem. Bright shone the light from the heavens on high Not a cloud masked the light of from the brilliant blue sky There stood on the beach of a far distant shore An exile from Erin that land we adore He vacantly gazed far o'er the blue sea as he longed for that land that he wants to see free And as he's there thinking the time's drawing nigh when the the good ship will bring him back home for to die refrain Homewards once more, Homewards once more and the good ship is speeding to Erin's green shore An exile returning no longer to roam He will end his career in his dear native home For freedom he fought and for Ireland he bled And for this he was sentenced to hang until dead but the sentence was not carried out if you please But instead he was banished for years o'er the seas |
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24 Feb 08 - 10:49 PM (#2271550) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Homeward Once More From: Jim Dixon The song posted by Peace above is called MANUSCRIPT. It's on Al Stewart's album "Zero She Flies," 1970, and on several later compilations. I found the following lines quoted in Sean O'Casey's "Pictures in the Hallway," 1942, the second of his 6-volume autobiography: Homeward once more, homeward once more, The good ship is speeding for old Erin's shore; The exile's returning, no longer to roam, But to end his career in his own native home. Mrsmac already posted a more complete version in this thread. |
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25 Feb 08 - 07:35 AM (#2271680) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Homeward Once More From: GUEST,mrsmac so i did! thanks Jim |