Sailing Home For Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords by Doug Stone
Sailing Home For Christmas
Recorded by Doug Stone
Written by Lewis Anderson
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They looked out their
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windows at the
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ocean that
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In the service of their
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country
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sailing to a
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foreign
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shore
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Tomorrow will be
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Christmas and they
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wish that they could be
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home
Their wives and children
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need them but their
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country
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needs them
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more
But they'll be
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sailing home for Christmas
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sailing home for Christmas
Where a welcome candle
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in the window
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gleams
They'
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ll be sailing home for Chri
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stmas
sa
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iling
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e for Christmas
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Sailing home for
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Christmas in their
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dreams
Tomorrow they'll serve
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turkey and they'll
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sing the Christmas
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carols
They'll talk about their
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families their
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mothers and their
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sons
It's the
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strangest
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diction singing
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songs of peace and
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sharing
As they mend the battle
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weapons
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hoping war
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will never
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come
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And maybe
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someday they won't have to be there
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anymore
When we
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all start to
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live the things
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we have Christmas
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for
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They'll be
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sailing home for Christmas
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sailing
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home for
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Sailing home for
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Christmas in their
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dreams
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Sailing Home For Christmas?
- The song Sailing Home For Christmas was sang by Doug Stone.
Who is Doug Stone?
- Doug Stone (born Douglas Jackson Brooks June 19, 1956) is an American country music singer and actor. He debuted in 1990 with the single "I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box)", the first release from his 1990 self-titled debut album for Epic Records. Both this album and its successor, 1991's I Thought It Was You, earned a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Two more albums for Epic, 1992's From the Heart and 1994's More Love, are each certified gold. Stone moved to Columbia Records to record Faith in Me, Faith in You, which did not produce a Top Ten among its three singles. After suffering a heart attack and stroke in the late 1990s, he exited the label and did not release another album until Make Up in Love in 1999 on Atlantic Records. The Long Way was released in 2002 on the Audium label (now part of E1 Music), followed by two albums on the independent Lofton Creek Records.
Stone has charted twenty-six singles on Hot Country Songs, with his greatest chart success coming between 1990 and 1995. In this timespan, he had eight No. 1 singles on the Hot Country Songs charts including: "In a Different Light", "A Jukebox with a Country Song", "Too Busy Being in Love", and "Why Didn't I Think of That". He is known for his neotraditionalist country sound and his frequent recording of ballads.