VIDEO
Home Song Lyrics and Chords by Jim Reeves
Home
Recorded by Jim Reeves
Written by Roger Miller
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Well I've been a traveler
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most of my
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life
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Never took a home
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never took a wife
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decided to
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roam
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daddy back
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home
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Home where the
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river runs cold
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water tastes good the
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winters ain't cold
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Home where trees grow
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tall
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fires burn and the whippoorwills
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call
I remember stories that my
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daddy used to
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tell
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My eyes would get big and his
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chest would really swell
I could sit for hours and
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listen with
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glee
As he'd tell of how he lived when
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he was a boy like
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me
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Well mama dear mama do you
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still love your
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boy
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After all my roaming can I
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still bring you joy
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it not long
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ago
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I'm a missing you
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so
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Whippoorwills
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call
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whippoorwills
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call
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