Lookin’ outta my windowpane Tears minglin’ with the rain I’m so lonesome I could cry, just like old Hank Starin’ down on the city street Feelin’ empty and incomplete There’s a place I need to be to fill my tank
A place I can go where I can be free Where I can be happy and I just be me Home, where the warm wind’s blowin’ And the river’s flowin’ along Like a lazy bum in the midday sun And I’ve gone fishin’ with my pole at the fishin’ hole Where I can lay down my heavy load And know that I am always welcome Home
I left home, I was 17 I had a lot of ambitious dreams Seen a lot of those dreams come true I’ve had good luck I ain’t complaining that’s for sure I got a lot to be thankful for One of those things is a magic door that opens up Back to the time when I was a kid To the sound of the crickets and the katydids It’s called Home
On the front porch swingin’ and fern pots hangin’ Home With the church bells ringin’ and voices singin’ Those old songs that mend my mind like a stitch in time Where the tea is sweet and the love complete Oh me, I wanna go Home
I often think about where I have been Where I am goin’ and that’s about when I think about Home
Where the soul find comfort And the heart find pleasure Home
Where the depths of love is hard to measure it’s Home
I hear you callin’ I hear you callin’
I’ll never be lost As long as I know There’s a place like that Where I can go Where I can restore my weary soul On the mountain slopes in the soft blue smoke Of home Home sweet home
Home Back to the hills with the whippoorwills Of home With the fireflies blinkin’ And the night stars winkin’ Home Honeysuckle vine and muscadine wine At home Where the ginseng grows in the shady groves of Home With family and friends and joy that never ends Home There’s no place like it No place like it Home