Homecoming [*]
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
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 that I work
You meet a lot of people there, but no,
There ain't much chance of gettin' hurt

I'm sorry that I couldn't be there 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's 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.


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  (margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn   (Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn   100 Children   A Bar With No Beer   A Million Miles to the City   A Picture Of Your Mother   A Week in a Country Jail   Adventures Of Linda Bohannon   Ain't Got The Time   Ain't Got The Time   All You Want When You Please   America The Ugly   And I Love You So   Another Town   Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents A Gallon   Back When The Old Homeplace Was New   Back When We Were Young   Ballad Of Bill Crump   Ballad of Forty Dollars   Barn Dance   Beautiful River Of Life   Beauty Is A Fading Flower   Beer Drinker's Waltz   Beer Drinker's Waltz   Before Jessie Died   Big Motel On The Mountain   Bill Monroe For Breakfast   Bourbon Man   Canadian Women Canadian Clubs   Candy in the Window   Carter Boys   Chattanooga Dog   Cloudy Day   Coot Marseilles Blues   Country Cabin Itis   Country Is   Day Drinkin'   Day Drinkin'   Deal   Different Feeling   Do It To Someone You Love   Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe   Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe   Easter Is   Everybody Loves To Hear A Bird Sing   Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels   Everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels [*]   Fallen Women   Faster Horses   Faster Horses (cowboy And The Poet)   Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)   Flat-Footin' It   Flat-Footin' It   Forbidden Flowers   Forget It   Fox Hollow's Animal Train   Fox Hollow's Animal Train   Fox on the Run   From A Mansion To A Honky-Tonk   George (And The North Woods)   Gimme Peace   Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time   Girl You Sure Know How To Say Goodbye   Girls In Saigon City   God Came Through Bellville Georgia   Gone To Hell In A Basket   Goodbye Cowgirl   Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey   Halloween Is   Hang Them All   Hang Them All (Get the Guilty)   Happy Groundhog Day   Harmonica Man   Harper Valley P.T.A.   Harper Valley P.T.A. [#]   Harper Valley PTA   High Steppin' Proud   High Steppin' Proud   Highways   Hitchhiker   Homecoming   How To Talk To A Little Baby Goat   I Can't Dance   I Can't Dance   I Care   I Feel Like Flying Away   I Flew Over Our House Last Night   I Hope It Rains At My Funeral   I Know Who I'll Be Seeing In New Zeland   I Know Who I'll Be Seeing In New Zeland   I Left You Some Kisses On The Door   I Like Beer   I Like to Feel Pretty Inside   I Love   I Love [Live] [Live]   I Miss A Lot of Trains   I Still Care What Happens To You   I Took A Memory To Lunch   I Want To See The Parade   I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew   I Wish I Had A Million Friends   I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again   I'm A Cowboy Too   I'm Forty Now   I'm Not Ready Yet   I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again   I'm A Cowboy Too   I'm Forty Now   I'm Not Ready Yet   It Feels Better Now   It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines   It's Got To Be Kentucky For Me   It's Got To Be Kentucky For Me   Jesus On The Radio (daddy On The Phone)   Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You   Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You   Jolly Old Saint Nicholas   Kentucky Feb. 27, '71   Kentucky Feb. 27, '71   Kentucky Feb. 27.'71   Kentucky In The Morning   L. A. Blues   L.A. Blues   Last Country Song   Last Hard Town   Legend Of The Lady Bear   Let's Play Remember   Let's Play Remember   Letters   Little Brown Suitcase   Little Green Flower With The Yellow On Top   Little Lady Preacher   Local Flowers   Loneliest Girl In The Crowd   Looking Forward To Seeing You Again   Lost In Florida   Love's Been Good To Me   Love's Been Good To Me   Lovin' Arms   Lovin' Arms   Lying Jim   Magnificent Music Machine   Mama Bake A Pie   Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)   Mama's Got The Catfish Blues   Mama's Got The Catfish Blues   Man Who Hated Freckles   Margie's at The Lincoln Park Inn   Mc Leay Street In Sydney   Me And Jesus   Me And Jimmie Rodgers   Monkey That Became President   More About John Henry   Myra   Mysterious Fox Of Fox Hollow   Nashville Is A Groovy Little Town   Negatory Romance   Never Having You   No New Friends Please   O Christmas Tree   Ode To A Half A Pound Of Ground Round   Old Dogs Children And Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs Children and Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs, and Children, and Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs, Children & Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine   Old Enough to Want To   Old Enough To Want To (Fool Enough To Try)   Old Five And Dimers Like Me   Old Habits Die Hard   Old Side Of Town   Ole Lonesome George The Basset   One Hundred Children   One More Song For Jesus   One Night In Germany   One of The Mysteries of Life   Over And Over Again   Over The Rainbow   P.S. I Love You   Pamela Brown   Pay No Attention To Alice   Piece Of The Road   Pinto The Wonder Horse Is Dead   Pisty   Promise And The Dream   Put Another Log On The Fire   Raking Up Leaves   Ramona's Revenge   Ramona's Revenge   Rattle Mouse   Ravishing Ruby   Redneck Riviera   Rolling Mills Of Middletown   Royal Annie   Running Wild   Sad Song For My Friend   Salute To A Switchblade   Saturday Morning Song   Second Handed Flower   Second Handed Flowers   Senior Citizen Star   Shame On The Rain   She Gave Her Heart To Jethro   Ships Go Out   Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore   Shoeshine Man   Sing A Little Baby To Sleep   Singer's Song   Singer's Song   Six O'clock News   Six O'clock News   Sky Blue True   Sneaky Snake   Soldier Of Fortune   Son of Clayton Delaney   Song For Uncle Curt   Song Of The One Legged Chicken   Songwriter   Souvenirs   Spokane Motel Blues   St. George Isle   St. Louis Named A Shoe After Me   Story Of Your Life Is In Your Face   Strawberry Farms   Subdivision Blues   Texas Never Fell In Love With Me   Thank You Connersville Indiana   Thanksgiving Is   That Lucky Old Sun   That Song Is Driving Me Crazy   That Song Is Driving Me Crazy [CD Only]   That'll Be All Right With Me   That's How I Got To Memphis   That's Why You Have To Be You   That'll Be All Right With Me   That's How I Got To Memphis   That's Why You Have To Be You   The Ballad of Bill Crump   The Carter Boys   The Dancing Tree   The Hitch-hiker   The Little Lady Preacher   The Man Who Shot Himself   The Monkey That Became President   The Old Side of Town   The Son of Clayton Delaney   The World The Way I Want It   The Year That Clayton Delaney Died   There Is A Miracle In You   Time Takes Care Of A Few Things   Too Many Do-Goods   Trees In Philadelphia   Trip To Hyden   Tulsa Telephone Book   Turn It On Turn It On Turn It On   Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On   Waiting On The Other Shoe To Fall   Water Blue   Watertown Tennessee   Way I've Always Been   Way I've Always Been   Way We Were   We're All In This Thing Alone   We're All In This Thing Alone   Week In A Country Jail   What A Song   When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore   Whiskey Castles   Who Needs A Baby   Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs   Whole Lot Of Love   Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me   Windy City Anne   World According To Raymond   World The Way I Want It   Year That Clayton Delaney Died   You Are A Star   You Are My Hero   You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)   Your Birthday Is   Your Man Loves You Honey

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