Homecoming Lyrics

The song Homecoming is performed by Tom T. Hall in the album named Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher in the year 1995 .



I guess I should've written, Dad
To let you know that I was coming home
I've been gone so many years
I didn't realize you had a phone

I saw your cattle coming in
Boy, they're looking mighty fat and slick
I saw Fred at the service station
Told me that his wife is awful sick

You heard my record on the radio
Oh, well, it's just another song
But I've got a hit recorded
And it'll be out on the market 'fore too long

I got this ring in Mexico
No, it didn't cost me quite a bunch
When you're in the business that I'm in
The people call it puttin' up a front

I know I've lost a little weight
An' I guess I am looking kind of pale
If you didn't know me better, Dad
You'd think that I'd just gotten out of jail

No, we don't ever call them beer joints
Night clubs are the places where I work
You meet a lot of people there
But no, there ain't no chance of gettin' hurt

I'm sorry that I couldn't be here with you all
When Momma pa*sed away
I was on the road and when they came and told me
It was just too late

I drove by the grave to see her
Boy, that really is a pretty stone
I'm glad that Fred and Jan are here
It's better than you being here alone

Well, I knew you was gonna ask me
Who the lady is that's sleeping in the car
That's just a girl who works for me
And man, she plays a pretty mean guitar

We worked in San Antone last night
She didn't even have the time to dress
She drove me down from Nashville
And to tell the truth I guess she needs the rest

Well, Dad, I gotta go
We got a dance to work in Cartersville tonight
Let me take your number down
I'll call you and I promise you I'll write

Now you be good and don't be chasin'
All those pretty women that you know
And by the way if you see Barbara Walker
Tell her that I said, "Hello"



Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher

Nov 1995

  1. Magnificent Music Machine
  2. A Million Miles To The City
  3. I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew
  4. The Hitch-Hiker
  5. Ballad Of Forty Dollars
  6. I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
  7. Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
  8. Strawberry Farms
  9. Watergate Blues
  10. I Want To See The Parade
  11. 100 Children
  12. The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
  13. The Son Of Clayton Delaney
  14. The Old Side Of Town
  15. I Can't Dance
  16. Last Of The Drifters
  17. Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
  18. A Week In A Country Jail
  19. Spokane Motel Blues
  20. Homecoming
  21. Hello, We're Lonely
  22. Down At The Mall
  23. Fox On The Run
  24. Shoeshine Man
  25. Flat-Footin' It
  26. Old Five And Dimers Like Me
  27. Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
  28. More About John Henry
  29. Give Her My Best
  30. Pamela Brown
  31. I Flew Over Our House Last Night
  32. Molly And Tenbrooks
  33. The Monkey That Became President
  34. That's How I Got To Memphis
  35. Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
  36. Day Drinkin'
  37. Salute To A Switchblade
  38. Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
  39. Subdivision Blues
  40. America The Ugly
  41. Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)
  42. Levi Jones
  43. Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
  44. I'm Forty Now
  45. Me And Jesus

Homecoming