歌曲名 Homecoming (Single Version)

歌手名 Tom T Hall

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 passed 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 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