"Welcome Home". -Eric Bogle. . Now when the boys came home, Annie cried and Annie cheered. She'd been on her own for a long and lonely year. Living for his letters from far away Vietnam.
WEE DARK ENGINE ROOM. (G) C G7 C G / G C F G7 C / C G7 C F C G C G / C F C F C. In that wee dark engine room,. Where the chill seeps through your soul,.
Well, once jolly swagmen* went humping their swags. and stuffed jolly jumbucks* down in their tucker bags. These days, jolly junkies go on house-breaking jags.
Sometimes late at night. By the candle light. All too subtly. You mood alter me and I. . I'll be drinking up the minutes as they pass. I'll be cherishing the seconds while they last.
In case of loving unreturned. Unrequited fingers burn. Don't you blame yourself at all. There is no blame, there is no crime. This madness happens all the time.
I look for comfort in the arms of every friend that I have known. I long for poetry to sweep away the clouds above my soul. I let myself believe that these will be my saviors till the end.
Once riding in old Baltimore, head filled, heart filled with glee. I saw a Baltimorean, keep looking straight at me. I was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger.
1 2 3 4. . There's blood on the sidewalk. From someone I don't know. I step around it. So I won't get it on my shoe. . On my way to work in Washington.
(Sandy Denny). The summer was the reason. Why it took so long to see. That even if I do possess. Some seeds of honesty. There is no garden. So how come I have no land?.
(D. Fisher, F. Fisher). Why do you whisper, green grass. Why tell the trees what ain't so?. Whispering grass. The trees don't have to know. Why tell them all your secrets.
You're sending messages transmitted in Morse Code. And I'm decoding as they beat right through your chest. Tell me again if I'm not mistaken. I'll tell you again but the words are changing.
And I hate what I've become. Childhood photographs are faded like the memories. Lost inside my head. Because I sold my soul for cheap. In exchange for empty promises.
I am wading deep waters trying to get home. Lord I am wading deep waters trying to get home. I am wading deep waters. Wading deep waters. Wading deep waters trying to get home.
Where have all people gone?. Where is your skin when I'm in this bed lying. My shoes seem covered with snow. and I used your words to keep them dry. .
Still in time and time to say. I don't believe my eyes. Is this the place I love to hate?. Can I explain the altered state. Of the waiting room?. Waiting room.
Why must I worry?. Try not to hurry like other people. Why must I hurry?. 'Cause you know yourself. That is not the way. . Who am I, to tell you lies.
Rothai an t'saoil ag casadh leo. Nil imeacht uaidh go deo. Daoine corr an t'saoil ag goid leo. Ni cuma leo go foill. . The wheels of the world keep on turning.
There I go saying the same old things. Something to rhyme or to cling to. When times were tough, I didn't say enough. Like some sweet lines to say to you, relate to you.
Woahoooo eh eh. . Lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go. . Verse 1:. . remember when we said forever always and more. such a long time ago we're so different than before.