Lyr Req: Long Journey Home

19 Jul 98 - 11:45 AM (#32886)
Subject: Long journey home
From: cleod

sorry about the typo in the thread (wince)

I was searching for the lyrics of the Long Journey Home anthem and I couldn't find it anywhere...can anyone help me? Please?

Thanks! cleod

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08 Feb 99 - 08:23 AM (#57628)
Subject: Lyr Add: LONG JOURNEY HOME
From:

LONG JOURNEY HOME

Cloudy in the west and it looks like rain
Look like rain, Lord, it looks like rain
Cloudy in the west and it looks like rain
I'm on my long journey home

Lost all my money but two dollar bill
Two dollar bill, Lord, two dollar bill
Lost all my money but two dollar bill
I'm on my long journey home

Black smoke a-rising and it surely is a train
Surely is a train, Lord, it surely is a train
Black smoke a-rising and it surely is a train
I'm on my long journey home

I hear the train a-coming and I'll soon be gone
Soon be gone, Lord, I'll soon be gone
I hear the train a-coming and I'll soon be gone
I'm on my long journey home

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08 Feb 99 - 11:23 AM (#57642)
Subject: Lyr Add: LONG JOURNEY HOME (Costello/Maloney)
From: Alice

There is another Long Journey Home from the documentary of the same name about Irish immigration to America. Here it is, for education purposes only. It is included in the CD notes of the soundtrack for the CD, which you can order through a Mudcat link to CD Now or Music Boulevard. Just click on the Mudcat logo that says Help support the Mudcat.

Long Journey Home (Anthem)
Elvis Costello/Paddy Maloney

If on every ocean the ship is a throne,
And for each mast cut down another sapling is grown,
Then I could believe that I'm bound to find,
A better life than I left behind.

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread,
For the colors bled as they overflowed,
Red, white and blue,
Green, white and gold.

So I had to leave from my country of birth,
As for each child grown tall,
Another lies in the earth,
And for every rail we laid in the loam
There's a thousand miles of the long journey home.

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread,
For the colors bled as they overflowed,
Red, white and blue,
Green, white and gold.

alice in montana

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21 Aug 01 - 01:16 PM (#532554)
Subject: RE: Long journey hone
From: GUEST,Andrew

Anybody got chords or tab or sheet music for this one?

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