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Home (Edward Thomas)

from Poetry and Music 11 by Toby Darling

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Home 2


A* Dm
Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, and
A* A** Dm
We had seen nothing fairer than that land,
D7 Am
Though strange, and the untrodden snow that made
D6 Am
Wild of the tame, casting out all that was
Gm A7
Not wild and rustic and old; and we were glad.

Dm A7
Fair too was afternoon, and first to pass
Dm A7
Were we that league of snow, next the north wind.

There was nothing to return for, except need,
And yet we sang nor ever stopped for speed,
As we did often with the start behind.
Faster still strode we when we came in sight
Of the cold roofs where we must spend the night.
Happy we had not been there, nor could be,
Though we had tasted sleep and food and fellowship
Together long.

'How quick', to someone's lip
The words came, 'will the beaten horse run home!'

The word 'home' raised a smile in us all three,
And one repeated it, smiling just so
That all knew what he meant and none would say.
Between three counties far apart that lay
We were divided and looked strangely each
At the other, and we knew we were not friends
But fellows in a union that ends
With the necessity for it, as it ought.

Dm A7
Never a word was spoken, not a thought
Dm
Was thought, of what the look meant with the word
A7
'Home' as we walked and watched the sunset blurred.
G Dm
And then to me the word, only the word,
C Dm A7
'Homesick', as it were playfully occurred:
No more.

If I should ever more admit
Than the mere word I could not endure it
For a day longer: this captivity
Must somehow come to an end, else I should be
Another man, as often now I seem,
Or this life be only an evil dream.
Edward Thomas

A*: x0x986
Dm: xx0765
A** x0x985
D7: xx0768
D6: xx0767
Am: x0x555
Gm xx5333
A7: x0202x

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from Poetry and Music 11, released July 29, 2017

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