Calling My Children Home Lyrics

(Doyle Lawson/Charles Waller/Robert Yates)

Those lives were mine to love and cherish.
To guard and guide along life's way.
Oh God forbid that one should perish.
That one alas should go astray.

Back in the years with all together,
Around the place we'd romp and play.
So lonely now and oft' times wonder,
Oh will they come back home some day.

I'm lonesome for my precious children,
They live so far away.
Oh may they hear my calling...calling..
and come back home some day.

I gave my all for my dear children,
Their problems still with love I share,
I'd brave life's storm, defy the tempest
To bring them home from anywhere.

I lived my life my love I gave them,
to guide them through this world of strife,
I hope and pray we'll live together,
In that great glad here after life.

I'm lonesome for my precious children,
They live so far away.
Oh may they hear my calling...calling.. and come back home some day.

Emmylou Harris - At the Ryman

Jan 1992

1. Guitar Town (LP Version)
2. Half As Much (LP Version)
3. Cattle Call (LP Version)
4. Guess Things Just Happen That Way (LP Version)
5. Hard Times (LP Version)
6. Mansion On The Hill (LP Version)
7. Scotland (LP Version)
8. Montana Cowgirl (LP Version)
9. Like Strangers (LP Version)
10. Lodi (LP Version)
11. Calling My Children Home (Live Album Version)
12. If I Could Be There (LP Version)
13. Walls Of Time (LP Version)
14. Get Up John (LP Version)
15. It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go/Abraham, Martin and John (LP Version)
16. Smoke Along The Track