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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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