Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam

04 Sep 09 - 02:31 PM (#2716290)
Subject: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

So here I am at wonderful Pinewoods Camp in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and I've just heard a lovely song. The singer has never been able to find the source of the song, so I turn to you, my esteemed Mudcat friends.
The chorus changes pronouns, but mostly goes like this:

(May they/you/we find: Home, home, wherever you roam
Though night and storm lay between us
Home, home, morning will come
With friends to restore us again.

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05 Sep 09 - 11:25 AM (#2716781)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

Anybody??

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23 Oct 11 - 11:35 PM (#3243761)
Subject: ADD: Farewell to the House (Caswell?)
From: GUEST,Rebecca Armstrong

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 ([e-mail])

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

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25 Oct 11 - 08:19 AM (#3244467)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

Oh, my- what a wonderful surprise to find this thread (thanks, Joe, for alerting me to it!). I have sent an email to the address on his website and hope to find out the source of this song at last!

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28 Nov 12 - 03:07 PM (#3443847)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: GUEST,Steve baughman

yes, Chris Caswell did write this.

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06 Jan 13 - 02:57 PM (#3462241)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: GUEST,kirstysong

Yes, he did, but the link in a previous post (by Allison, 25-Oct-11) is to the website of a *different* Chris Caswell. I've seen him play and that's not his photo.

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06 Jan 13 - 08:34 PM (#3462379)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

Well, that explains why I never heard back from him! I would love to hear this song again, but the melody is gone from my memory. Fun to see the thread here again!

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06 Jan 13 - 09:25 PM (#3462394)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: GUEST,999

http://musicstand.harpcolumn.com/forums/coffee-break/posts/16674?page=6

Don't look like good news. Near the bottom of the link.

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07 Jan 13 - 07:37 AM (#3462548)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Home, home, wherever they/you/we roam
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

Oh, dear. Thanks for that link, 999. May he find comfort and healing, in whatever form it may take.

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