Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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Come home, come home, come home,
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ye who
are weary, come home.
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I'd like to tell a story if
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you folks wouldn't mind.
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this one's true and it really happened
in the little hometown of mine.
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There was this kind old
colored fella
of whom the folks were always fun.
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I don't even remember what his
last name was.
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We always just called him Uncle John.
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I remember when I was little
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I used to go see him nearly every day
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just to sit and hear his stories
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and to while some time away.
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While he was in his height of glory
when there was children around his feet,
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I've seen him smile right out loud
and say, lousy me, children,
you sure is sweet.
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Now I know in this big wide world
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there must be kind folks
by the bushel,
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but I just believe that in this one old man,
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the Lord put something special.
Well, I've seen times when folks was sick,
that old man would walk for miles
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just to offer his assistance
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and help out a little while.
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He was always doing things like that,
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giving things which he couldn't afford.
Funny thing was, he never
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always said he was just work
ing for the Lord.
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Now, Uncle John had this sickness
that he didn't know about.
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Folks didn't know whether to tell him
or just let him live it out.
all decided
that they ought to let him know.
if he'd go tell him,
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he said, yeah, he'd go.
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He found old John a -sittin'
in his homemade rockin' chair,
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thumbin' through a worn -out bible,
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reciting little scriptures here
and there.
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A doc was scared and he was nervous
because he didn't know quite where to
start.
Don't you know his conscience fought
him
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because he'd come to break
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But he gathered up his courage
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and he found the words to say,
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Uncle John, the Lord's coming,
he gonna take you away.
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They must have been a choir of angels started
singing in that old man's ears
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for a great big smile come on him
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and his eyes broke out in tears
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and he said why dr. Boyd
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that's about the most glorious news
I ever heard
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I've been living let's see 85 years
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I guess just to hear them blessed words
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now to know that he finally calling me
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to leave this earthly sod doc
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I've been living all of my life
just so as I could get to
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meet my God
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Gone Home
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