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I-90 Take Me Home
03:52
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VERSE 1
Well about 200 miles from here is the place where I was born
That horizon line’s callin’ out to me
See my family, breathe the country air
I want to taste that old sweet corn
This highway takes me where I want to be
CHORUS 1
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Windows down breeze’ll blow the city out of my hair
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Only road I know that’ll take me there
VERSE 2
I love the city life but country’s in my veins
And I start to feel confined
I want to feel the cool grass between my toes
The city streets are loud, the people warm but tough
And I need to clear my mind
Take a little break from the life I chose
CHORUS 2
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
I pack a tshirt and my boots and my worn out jeans
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
I need to rest my back and mend my fadin’ seams
BRIDGE 1
Spent a lot of time on this wanderin’ road
Hears my dreams and carries my heavy load
Take me home to lay my burden down
Give me time to stretch and adjust my crown
VERSE 3
Well the hum of the highway’s harmonizing with me
Though I’ve been down on my luck
Got a little hitch in my gitalong
Oh, my license plate is from out of state
Til I hop in my Daddy’s truck
Window down and singin’ this highway song
CHORUS 3
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Sweet alfalfa scents the clothes out on the line
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Front porch, Midwestern sun, and I’m feelin’ fine
BRIDGE 2
Take me to the fields and that country sky
I want to stretch my wings and I want to fly
Crops of green as far as the eye can see
Til those city streets start to callin’ me
CODA
Well the country life and the land is pretty but
I’ve got to get back to that pretty Windy City!
And I hope and pray the trip won’t take too long
Twenty bucks in the bank and maybe half a tank
I’m coastin’ in by the break of dawn
Eastbound or Westbound I can’t go wrong
OUTRO
Oh, no matter where I roam
I-90 takes me home
I-90, Take Me Home
Well she takes me home
Ooh she takes me home
I wanna go home
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2. |
Little Town Girl
03:23
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Little Town Little Town can’t hold me
Nearby river’s runnin’ free
Someday I’ll be on that water
Voice of the river cast a spell on me
But I can’t stay here long
Gotta be movin’ I’m ramblin’ on
And I can’t stay ‘round here
Voice of the river ringin’ in my ear
I want to see the oceans!
I want to see that great big sea
I want to see what’s out there
Want to see what they’ve got for me
I want to see the city!
Yeah, in the city that’s where I’ll be
I want to stir up trouble
Whole world lookin’ right at me
But I left home many years ago
I hit the road for tomorrow and so I
Bounced around about every night
Lookin’ for a place to call home
But
Little girl climbs a big ol’ tree and looks for the city that she can’t see and
Little girl looks right at me and I know I can’t let her down, no! I no I can’t let her down.
Little Town Little Town don’t know me
Don’t know all the things I’ll be
Someday I’ll be on that highway
Voice of the road cast a spell on me
I want to see the city!
Yeah in the city that’s where I’ll be
I want to stir up trouble
Whole world lookin’ right at me
I want to say, “I’ve been there”
I want to say, “I’ve walked that road.” (C, Bb, Ab)
I want to say, “I’m sorry.”
I want to reap just what I’ve sowed.
But I left home in a beat up truck
No plans, no sense, just a couple of bucks.
I cried my eyes out every night lookin’ for a place to call home
But
Little girl in her climbin’ tree
Looks for a future that she can’t see
Little girl looks right at me and
I hope I didn’t let her down, no I hope I didn’t let her down
Because she wants to fly
She wants to take off and fly
Little girl she’ll fly/
/Fly so, fly so high
Pretty little girl she’ll fly so high
Pretty little girl she’ll fly so high
Fly so, Fly so high
She wants to fly
Oh let her fly
Little Town Little Town I miss you
Out here nobody knows me
Don’t know my Momma or my Poppa
Don’t know my climbin’ tree
I’ve lived 1,000 lifetimes
I’ve dreamed 1,000 dreams
I’ve walked a 1,000 miles
All from the top of my climbin’ tree
But I can’t stay here long
Gotta be movin’ I’m ramblin’ on
I can’t stay round here
Little girl’s voice ringing in my ear
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3. |
The Threshold
03:36
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VERSE 1
Pretty water, Pretty shore
Pretty city outside my door
We are standing on The Threshold
Make this home feel like home
VERSE 2
Pretty valley, Pretty range
World of shadow feels so strange
All we want is shelter from the cold
We want to go home
CHORUS 1
Where now would we go?
A fire’s burnin and I can’t see through the smoke
We’ve come a long way together and so
We’re going to find our way home
VERSE 3
Pretty fields and pretty land
Witnessed our promise
Our wedding band
We were standing on the Threshold
Looking for home
BRIDGE
And though we’ve searched our souls for all these years
I’ve raised our spirits you’ve consoled my fears
I didn’t realize but now I do
I think my home is here with you
CHORUS 2
But where now should we go?
The sun is rising but I can’t see the road
I feel the answer wherever we roam
I think I’m already home
VERSE 4
Sanctuary from the storm
You hold me close your gaze is safe and warm
And we are crossing through the Threshold
I think I’m already home
CHORUS 3
So where now do we go?
I want to see what lies beyond the rainbow
I know the answer whatever we do
My home is with you.
My home is with you.
My home is with you.
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Trains
03:23
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Grew up by the tracks
those old steel rails sing out to me
I hear her callin’, long before I can see
On the /horizon, I see her comin’ into /view
And I wonder where she’s been and I wonder /where she’s headed to
Chorus:
Train Train Train! I’ve been ridin’ these trains for all my life
And the sound of the whistle it cuts into my heart just like a knife
Train Train Train! She wakes my soul before the dawn
Some/day when the dust cloud settles, I’ll be gone
At the station, I hear ‘em cry, “All Aboard!” I grab a cheap seat. As the engine starts to roar. I watch the world pass, as we go from town to town, And I don’t know where I’m goin’ but I know I’m homeward bound
Chorus:
Train, train, train! I’ve been ridin’ them trains throughout the years
These cars’ll take me home, they’ve seen my laughter and my tears
Train, train, train! These tracks are etched across my heart
As long as we’ve got trains, we’re never far apart
Bridge:
Little whistle stops and the border towns worn down by time
Old Man stands by the tracks thinks of when his world was in its prime
Still his withered hand waves a greeting as we speed away
He smiles and laughs and says no sense to dwell on yesterday
“Where ya headed?” the conductor says to me.
“Well, where ya goin’?”
Our eyes meet and we agree:
From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore
I’ll be ridin’ them trains forever more
Chorus 3:
Train Train Train! Been ridin’ them trains for all my life
And the sound of the whistle it cuts into my heart just like a knife
Train Train Train! She wakes my soul before the dawn
Someday when the dust cloud settles, I’ll be gone
I’ll be gone, oohhhh, I’ll be gone
I’ll be ridin’ them trains
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Saint's Delight
03:04
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I have brushed aside this humble dust
As along the path I trod
Until now I could not bear the weight of my father's native sod
I feel like, I feel like I'm on my journey home
I have brushed aside this humble dust
As along the path I trod
Until now I could not bear the weight of my father's native sod
I feel like, I feel like I'm on my journey home
When I can hold my title clear to mansions in the sky
I'll bid farewell to every fear and wipe my weepin' eye
I feel like, I feel like I'm on my journey home
I feel like, I feel like I'm on my journey home
Let cares like a wild deluge come
Let storms like sorrows fall
Til I can safely reach my home
My God My Heaven My All
There I can lay my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest
And not a wave of thunder roll
Across my peaceful breast
I feel like I feel like I'm on my journey home
I feel like I feel like I'm on my journey home
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6. |
Back Home
04:37
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Times like these I’m troubled by the chill that coats the words that people say
Reminds me why we live so far away
Yet I feel my heart strings pulled by ties that I have yet to understand
By my birth I am a child of that land
And I’m goin’ back home
I need to go home
Only for a few days, but let’s go home
We’re on the road
It knows where to go
Take me to the only land I know
Home is where I learned of love and kindness
To do right by your fellow man
Am I missin’ somethin’? Help me understand.
With my eyes closed I know these roads just like the back of my own hand
Still I’m a foreigner in my own native land
And I’m goin’ back home
What am I lookin’ for?
They don’t recognize me any more
Cuz I’ve been gone
Maybe too long
But it’s still the place I go when I go home
My Cup is empty and I’m losin’ my resolve
I need to hold a familiar hand
The night is darkest when it’s just before the dawn
So follow me into that verdant land
I wore my heart like a badge of honor all those many years ago
They didn’t like it, they made sure to let me know
Yet we stood together singin’ songs just like “This Little Light of Mine”
They pick and choose the lights that they allow to shine
My Father’s hearth my Mother’s wise and loving smile
Will keep us safe and dry and warm
Together we will walk the hard and rugged mile
Our love’s a fire in this lonely storm
Scripture whirls around them forming stony walls of callous cold denial
The weary meek and poor still sufferin’ all the while
Do you recall, “Love one another even as I have loved you?”
Yeah, this old sinner can still read the Scripture, too.
And that’s back home
Still I’m going back home
If home is where the heart is they need me back home
I won’t be thrown like so many stones
Back home is where we’re headed lets’ go home
See you in a few days I’m going back home
I’ll see you in a few days I’m going back home
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For the Beauty of the Earth
For the glory of the skies
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies
Lord of all to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise
For the wonder of each hour
Of the day and of the night
Hill and vale and tree and flower
Sun and moon and stars of light
Lord of all to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise
For the joy of human love
Brother, Sister, Parent, Child
Friends on earth and friends above
For all gentle thoughts and mild
Lord of all to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise
For the beauty of the earth
For the glory of the skies
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies
Lord of all to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise
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US Highway
Somewhere in Ohio
At night it looks like any other lonesome country road
On the shoulder
Sits a little down home shack
Long haul trucker steps inside to rest his weary bones
He's been headed from the Great Lakes down to somewhere deep in Tennessee
Right now he's 15 miles from the Indiana line
What he is doin' here, the reasoning is not quite clear
This roadside stand survives from another time
The interstates had long ago just passed this county by
Inside's a farmer
Who couldn't sleep tonight
Waitress seats the trucker by a couple factory guys
Nearby's a soldier
Who finally made it home
She wanted to be somewhere where they'd just leave her alone
The quiet hum is broken by a chorus of teenage laughs
It's coming from a table that is somewhere in the back
Village of vagabonds, not quite misfits not quite cool
I'm sittin' with my friends, at the truck stop where I hung out in high school
Chorus:
But I ain't been back and it's been almost 20 years
Didn't linger 'round the doorway and the dusty souvenirs
In the rearview mirror is a reflection of a fool
And my thoughts begin to turn
to the truck stop where I hung out in high school
I'm just a kid
It's 1990-somethin'
Drinkin' coffee 2 am just itchin' to begin
I watch the window
Lookin' for a boy
Who never seemed to see me in the way that I saw him
Then through the doorway walks this man I've never seen
A stranger in a place where they are few and far between
My heart is broken, now this night feels cold and cruel
I’m alone with all my friends, At the truck stop where I hung out in high school
Chorus:
But I ain't been back and it's been almost 20 years
Didn't linger 'round the doorway and the dusty souvenirs
In the rearview mirror is a reflection of a fool
And my thoughts begin to turn
to the truck stop where I hung out in high school
I was a good girl
Whatever that might mean
Didn't cause much trouble, just about to turn eighteen
I watch that trucker
And wonder what the old man knows
I ask my friend where that ol' highway really goes:
"It cuts through the mountains once it blows past all these plains."
"Me too," I laughed, but what I meant I never did explain.
The waitress clears my plate and looks at me and cracks her gum:
"I don't know where you think you're goin', hon, but this is where you're from!"
Sorry if I never turned around
Waited my whole damn life to leave these little towns
My grandfather said, “You can go anywhere from here…”
And Lord, I tried, I tried, I tried
It's years later
I'm worn out by it all
I'm not where I thought I would be
But where that is I can't recall
Then I remember
A little down home roadside shack
And suddenly those memories I buried rush on back
I guess like that trucker I just took the scenic route
Although the years don't seem to knock that country clay from off my boots
Before he left that night he spoke a single truth
His words have taught me how to breathe so I'll survive
"There is no destination, and you never quite arrive!"
2 3 4
Sorry if I never turned around
Waited my whole damn life to leave these little towns
In the rearview mirror is a reflection of a fool
And someday I may return
to the truck stop where I hung out in high school
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Elizabeth Morgan Chicago, Illinois
Elizabeth Morgan was born and raised in rural Ohio. After college, she hightailed it to Chicago where she performs her show She's Folks alongside her band as a love letter to the country from a kid who couldn't wait to leave.
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