Tom T. Hall - Homecoming

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"No, we don't ever call them beer joints, night clubs are the places where I work, you meet a lot of people there, but no, there ain't no chance of gettin' hurt" - Tom T. Hall. Complete lyrics below.
Vocals: Tom T. Hall
Words & Music: Tom T. Hall
Original Album: Homecoming (Mercury Records - 1969)
Lyrics:
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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@BMYNH 2 года назад

The last line is devastating. This song is so richly layered, touching on generational differences, how alienated and removed from his roots he has become. He knows cattle but chose to leave the farm. He means to call or visit but just never gets around to it. His promise to call, he means it, but he won't call. He didn't even have his dad's number and had to ask for it. The next time he comes will be for his dad's funeral. Then the gut-punch, Barbara Walker, the lost love, the one he left behind, representing the life he could have had. For every line of poetry there are others unwritten, but there to discover if one listens for them. Songwriting and storytelling really don't get better than this. Rest in Peace.

@scottsanderson8065 Год назад

What a cogent analysis

@fishheadjc609 Год назад

His greatest, in my opinion. Your critique is spot on!

@chesterwortham5525 Год назад

@@fishheadjc609yes I think so too

@lowellmorse6723 10 месяцев назад

Well put@@scottsanderson8065

@jimpittman5049 9 месяцев назад

They've really missed the boat on country music these days. These were songs from the soul.

@guitar4851 2 года назад

RIP. Another legend never to be replaced. Sad times we’re living in.

@clemson1889 2 года назад

and my maiden name is Barbara Walker. 😊

@goddessmerveille783 2 года назад

@@clemson1889 guess who was just by the old place, says to say hello? Driving a long white Cadillac. g'won guess. I bet you can't do it. Ain't been around these parts in a month of Sundays.

@dirtygirlof76 2 года назад

it was sad, the day he died. But he had a good long life. Thank God he left his music behind, and he will live forever in the pantheon of country music.

@tekay44 Год назад

@@clemson1889 hello.

@dalesands1291 Год назад

I think anyone who has ever left home for better opportunities and not come back for years or missed the funeral of a loved one can relate to this.

@dannelson863 6 лет назад

No one will ever touch Tom T. Sad that we've gone from songs like this to songs about getting stuck in the mud in your pickup truck.

@jamiewesson898 6 лет назад

why cant we have both

@wilfredheggart647 5 лет назад

@@jamiewesson898 nope ypou cant have my eight track stereos

@goddessmerveille783 2 года назад

@@jamiewesson898 because mediocre anything kills everything it comes into contact with. (Haven't you ever raised hunting dogs?? )

@jayjaynella4539 Год назад

Or how much impact a little brown suitcase can have in your life.

@michaelpawelka6074 9 месяцев назад

There will never be another songwriter w/the same style, or depth of sentiment that Tom T. had!!! May you rest cradled in His arms, sir!!! You are deeply missed and loved by many.😊 3:19

@AmeisterAmerica 4 года назад

This is my daddy’s song and I love him beyond anything y’all... Thanks daddy for everything...I MISS YOU.

@Reaganmurphy4596 11 месяцев назад

Hello beautiful How are you doing today, hope my message finds you in your best of mood, so sorry for intruding your privacy here just wanted to know if you're a fan ? Have a great day.. Stay Safe

@Mayhac 4 года назад

I’m a rapper in 2020 and I still relate to these lyrics

@Triggerzombie677 Год назад

Reminds me of my Dad. He's still here on earth. I Love him so much. I'd be nothing without him. I always call & visit him. Love you, Dad. ❤

@stevewilson6845 9 месяцев назад

Enjoy and share ur love for him. Mine is long gone he did the unthinkable to escape my mother. 40 years bullied until he could take no more. Enjoy great parents people

@nickgasper4656 2 года назад

I listened to Tom T all my life and still enjoy every song he ever made. Will miss him a lot as they do not make em like Tom T anymore.

@lneranger4 2 года назад

but you still have the music

@jayjaynella4539 Год назад

A lot of European artists have sung his music. And have become story writers themselves.

@billyrader2560 2 года назад

I never get tired of this song. The chords and melody are great, but the story is gut wrenching gets to me every time I hear it. Thank you Lord for giving us people like Tom T. Hall. RIP T.

@ayronsmama05 2 года назад

My heart breaks that he chose to take his own life. I still pray to meet him and shake his hand at the pearly gates! There will never be another like Tom T. GOD BLESS US ALL!

@RemingtonRidersMusic 2 года назад

This is the best song that he has ever written, and maybe one of the best songs ever written by anyone period. So simple and so deep at the same time. Thank you, Tom T. , for the songs and the stories. May you rest in peace.

@tekay44 Год назад

add Coal Miner's Daughter for a great one-two punch. just pure americana. could be anywhere on earth really.

@RemingtonRidersMusic Год назад

@@tekay44 Great idea. Could be anywhere.

@MW-eb1qh 10 месяцев назад

IMO it's a tie between Homecoming and That's How I Got to Memphis.

@cowboycb36 4 года назад

Who could give this song a thumbs down? This song is brilliant! True country music

@ayronsmama05 2 года назад

Folks who have never been there, No Heart!!

@donndwyer4585 2 года назад

Rest now Mr. Hall. True music like yours will return.

@philipkeyees6082 3 года назад

They don't call Tom the storyteller for no reason!homecoming , old dogs & children & watermelon wine! Just turned 61 that's my music...memories

@dstorm7752 5 лет назад

I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a phone...

@patman7421 2 года назад

I just can’t get enough of this song.

@georgelustrea2912 2 года назад

Same here...

@coashddjj2 6 лет назад

Can't get this song out of my head once I hear it. Excellent writing.

@anthony9901 7 лет назад

I really can't imagine how anyone could thumbs down this song

@rickcole1565 3 года назад

@devinbowen1609 3 года назад

Most country song ever written

@bz3248 3 года назад

An ignorant person with a closed mind is about the only person that would give it a thumbs down.

@Pravoizavlijesvijeta 8 лет назад

this song makes me happy and sad at the same time. A Bittersweet moment is what some people call it.

@maxgains5426 5 лет назад

Some of us will never have a home to go "home" too... But, it sure is nice to hear a song like this to make you feel like you do...

@barbarapollock7616 6 лет назад

aww doesn't this guy make songwriting look so easy....this really hits home in so many many ways

@dennishider7293 4 года назад

did you know he wrote the song Harper Valley PTA

@allenhughes12 2 года назад

This is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard and it makes me cry and smile every time I hear it. Makes you realize that you can never really go back.

@tekay44 Год назад

@@allenhughes12 check out John Prine's My Old Man. just wow.

@kennethlingle2885 8 лет назад

What a beautiful sad song. I love this song and the story that it tells. Sing it country man. We love Tom T. Hall. And we always will........

@TheSilvergold45 6 лет назад

What an all around TALENT TOM T. HALL IS. GOD BLESS HIM HOPE HE KEEPS SINGING FOR US..

@greymorris5376 Год назад

This song always reminds me of my father Ted, who was a complex character despite being the father of eight. I sang his favourite tune One Night While Counting Sheep the day he died 23 years ago last March. I miss him very much and his great wisdom

@quantumleap359 7 лет назад

Tom T always writes and sings from the heart. America's Storyteller.

@18661873 7 лет назад

A masterpiece.

@AmeisterAmerica 6 лет назад

I love you Dad, this country girls coming home.

@AmeisterAmerica 2 года назад

Respectfully rest in Heaven daddy and please trust that your Ameisters trying her best for Major mama and we both miss you very much!🙏✌️♥️😎 AIM HIGH LOVE FORCE!!!!!!!💜💙♥️💜♥️💙💜🧡💙🧡💜🇺🇸♥️💯♥️🇺🇸

5 лет назад

That was a very popular song around our neighborhood in 1970 - 71.... The youngmen who'd gone off to Vietnam were starting to come home

@jeweldotson3891 6 лет назад

My favorite Tom T Song

@dianefaw8210 5 лет назад

Jewel Dotson mine too

@morrisshepherd216 4 года назад

Remind me so much of the last conversation with my DAD in 1986 as a new promoted army major enroute to Germany. He died while i was in Germany. Hear so much i love you dad from Tom T.

@rodneycrafton9562 2 года назад

lost another one of the best loved this mans singing since he started

@bluebottlebunnyfarm 5 лет назад

I remember being 7 or 8 and hearing this song on my dads 8 truck tape. He was a salesman and he’d take me with him on sales calls. I listened to this song over and over. Today I too am a County music song writer and Id give somebody’s left nut to sit down and have a cup of coffee with Tom T Hall

@tonyday1989 2 года назад

Old Dogs & Children & Watermelon Wine no more. RIP Tom T

@georgelustrea2912 2 года назад

Reminds me of my father...Miss you dad..Should have listened to you more... ..

@timothythompson9837 2 года назад

This song fits all of us that miss where we came from

@mirandaburroway2796 4 года назад

One of dads favorites. Lord do I miss him

@The1957Michael 11 лет назад

This is also my favorite Tom T Hall song. I think the song could be used to teach song writing.

@goddessmerveille783 2 года назад

It sure taught me to shut up, sit down and listen to my elders.

@lonmcq7317 7 лет назад

I didn't remember this one, but it choked me up a little...Very wistful...

@MultiKc101 5 лет назад

great song from a great singer songwriter

@keithpeeples3565 2 года назад

Fourteen verses, no chorus. Songwriting brilliance. Reminds me of " A Boy Named Sue", Cash wrote in a similar style sometimes. Today they write in that pattern of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, end. Tom was certainly one of a kind.

@Brainshave01 2 года назад

RIP Tom T. Thanks for all the great music.

@jimreeves7769 4 года назад

This might be my favorite Tom t Hall song, actually, and that's picking from a ridiculously good catalog

@jonathan8452 7 лет назад

This is a picture of life set to song.

@jeffpaul9924 2 года назад

Sad day to wake up to the news of Tom passing. 😪

@greymorris5376 2 года назад

1979 was the year I first heard this song in what was one of the best years of my life. My father was a complex person who I was very proud of. The trouble was I never told him that.

@AmeisterAmerica 4 года назад

For my daddy in Heaven; I love and miss you very much... #AmeisterAmericaINC🇺🇸

@phillipmaiden5373 5 лет назад

For me the best line.is "and by the way if you see Barbara Walker tell her that I said hello."

@mikecastellon4545 4 года назад

We all have a Barbara walker..... A haunting ending

@ChuckD63 3 года назад

I have always wondered who Barbara Walker was

@goddessmerveille783 2 года назад

@@ChuckD63 she's the gal he had to leave behind, of course. He'll always love her but never return, he can't. The song is called Homecoming because you can't.

@paulchiasson9112 6 лет назад

Superb song writing and very pleasant singing.

@troykilmister3804 2 года назад

RIP Tom. There will never be another like you, we are blessed to have your life's work left to still enjoy. Thank you.

@jerrysetzer5762 7 лет назад

good ole song this will get them tears going soul country

@bcattful 11 лет назад

Sweet memories of this song...

@philholloway4424 5 лет назад

From one Kentucky boy to another, ain't nothing better!!!!

@webbjr37 12 лет назад

Best Song Tom T. did And he has a lot of great ones

@dianefaw8210 5 лет назад

webbjr37 agreed

@wilfredheggart647 5 лет назад

@@dianefaw8210 not for sale

@russkendrickmartin7257 7 лет назад

Great lyrics! I love the way Tom T. Hall tells a story.

@rodanderson5084 2 года назад

There is so much richness, in every line, but the last one got me, the first time I heard this song. And I was a very young man, just a boy, of 11, or 12, when I first heard it. Even at that tender age it resonated. There is blog post on the net, by a guy (Larry Grimes), who got to meet, and play golf with T, several years ago. He inquired of the Storyteller if he could ask him a question: "Hall smiled and nodded at me as if he knew my next question. “Was there really a Barbara Walker?” I asked. Hall smiled even bigger and then he said to me… “What do you think?”........... As I started to get in my car to leave, Hall turned and said to me: “Wasn’t there always a Barbara Walker somewhere in the lives of all of us?”......... Indeed ...... Simply, yet Beautifully, said.

@elizabethannsmith5006 Год назад

Tom Hal Guide me when I was in Texas back in 2021

@Reaganmurphy4596 11 месяцев назад

Hello Elizabeth 👋 How are you doing today, hope my message finds you in your best of mood, so sorry for intruding your privacy here just wanted to know if you're a fan ? Have a great day.. Stay Safe

@Clevinger67 10 лет назад

This is such a nice song. One of those that make me think of my parents and family and seeing them when I'd come home on leave years ago.

@deborahabdel-hadi6554 4 года назад

This song made me cry today, with the verse about "sorry that I couldn't be here with you all when Mama passed away..." and thankful that I was with my mother, but still upset that I wasn't able to be with my father (which is probably just how he wanted it), and then remembering how perfect my mother always made Christmas, and what a sorry imitation of her I am. Of course, there was a price for those perfect Christmases, and that price was how much anxiety went into it for her, how tightly wound she was, how little it took to "ruin" it. I remember the year my first child was a little over two years old, and I found my dear mother crying on the floor of the basement laundry room, because his little-boy curiosity had overwhelmed his manners, and he had "messed up" a display he didn't yet understand was only to look at. At the time I didn't understand, and I thought she was finding fault with my child and with my inadequate parenting, and resented her demands that I be "perfect" and have a "perfect" family. Today I realized that the pressure to be perfect was something that she put on herself, and that the demands were on her. How I wish that I could go back now and just hug her, and tell her it's HER we want to spend time with, and let's just enjoy the kids while they're little. It seems like there are so many things we don't learn (maybe even can't learn?) until it's too late to apply them. All that from one "little" song!

@douglasmacarthur8775 6 лет назад

I like all by Tom T Hall, but this is my favorite !

@dianefaw8210 5 лет назад

Douglas MacArthur mine too

@whatever-bi5ob 9 лет назад

I bet this song is true for a lot of singers

@rwnagle1089 2 года назад

All of my Country Music heroes are movin' on up to Hill Billy Heaven, think I'll buy my ticket ASAP.

@maddog6137 2 года назад

RIP my friend ...you will be missed.

@maxinerussell243 10 лет назад

Every country artist who ever sung a country song can relate to these words. They inspired a lot of my stories in my book, "Looking Back To See". Tom T. Hall has always inspired me, nobody like him, (Maxine Brown)

@jennifursun3303 9 лет назад

is your book for sale

@StevenSpolar 8 лет назад

+jennifur sun - Maxine's book can be purchased from her website in addition to several of The Brown's CD's. The following is a direct link to her website: themaxinebrown.com/looking-back-to-see/

@jennifursun3303 8 лет назад

+Steven Spolar thanks

@jennifursun3303 7 лет назад

have read somewhere that Barbara Walker was a real person.

@lincolnmaceachern2410 2 года назад

The Avett Brothers put out a song last year, "I Should Have Spent the Day With My Family," that I believe was totally inspired by Tom T.'s songwriting.

@bobjlv 2 года назад

Rest In Peace Tom...always loved your music!!

@manuelgonzales2944 2 года назад

This ain't goodbye; just so long. RIP

@tomgilsenan8934 2 года назад

Incredible talent R.I.P Tom

@keithoneil6711 2 года назад

Another beautiful song and perfect amazing voice

@guntherhoffmann7013 11 месяцев назад

Tom ! 😢 RIP .. ( From Germany ) ☝🏽☝🏽 Thank you for your Service ! 🍻

@BenSHammonds 10 лет назад

I really feel this one!!

@andrewhart2146 2 года назад

Another big pair of shoes to fill God Bless TTH

@bigal25938 4 месяца назад

Wonderfully sad song. Saddest part is Tom T is no longer here to write new songs.

@jeffmatuszak477 3 года назад

Tom T's writing is 2nd to none. But his arrangements are way underrated. Listen to that piano. Heartbreaking.

@meichelepittman8062 3 года назад

LOVE the piano!!

@jayjaynella4539 Год назад

Hargus played the piano on Tom's song called Little Brown suitcase. That piano playing turned a song about a suitcase into a song that gets me choked up every time I play that song.

@keithreeves8513 2 года назад

Farewell champ.. the best by a country mile..👍👍

@fredericaharris817 2 года назад

Best story teller there ever was. There will never be another one like him.

@davidbritt369 7 лет назад

Hits home 1967

@dianakelly8261 2 года назад

8/21/2021 Rip thanks for many real life songs!

@darrellsomers5427 7 месяцев назад

One of country music's greatest story tellers and song writers

@woodiethompson526 5 лет назад

He dont do much a nymore and it's a sad thing, he is a national treasure one we miss already !

@cliffsimpson4154 Год назад

I always loved the song that he sang I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died. I loved the song and the singer. RIP Tom T.😂

@patknight6083 7 лет назад

Great Tom T. tribute. Thanks for posting.

@chalked3 Год назад

This song always makes me cry.

@drakehonest2 Год назад

Hello how are you doing today..?

@wilfredheggart647 5 лет назад

i love this song

@jeffmikulin6251 2 года назад

Master story teller. My dad was an old school guitar player. How I miss them so!!!

@jerrypullen4890 5 лет назад

Master story teller

@jasonprice6094 8 месяцев назад

The words to this song remind me of my own life both good and bad. Trying to brush over things that we’re ashamed of like playing in beer joints or having a girl in the car by calling it by a better name or telling about her good qualities. I’ve done this with my own parents in the past. But like the old man in this song, he doesn’t approve but loves his boy and wants to spend time with him. Just like my folks did.

@lizettedunaway6258 2 года назад

Rest in peace old boy

@Reaganmurphy4596 11 месяцев назад

Hello Lizette 👋 How are you doing today, hope my message finds you in your best of mood, so sorry for intruding your privacy here just wanted to know if you're a fan ? Have a great day.. Stay Safe

@Carl-gp9ec 7 месяцев назад

I loved All of his music

@donloughrey1615 4 года назад

I can't get through this with dry eyes. I miss "the old man".

@kellywilliams5086 4 года назад

Those " old men" live on through us my friend. But I know exactly what you mean

@PabluchoViision 21 день назад

Tom T’s nickname “The Storyteller” was a great one but I think his overall gift as a musician as well as poet, and his beautiful, deeply moving singing voice, are often overlooked. As a lyricist/poet, he didn’t just tell great stories, he sometimes achieved an almost impossible compression of life experience into a handful of words. “My mother is dead/ She had long black hair/ Once she promised me a teddy bear”. (Strawberry Farms)

@ryanmeeks7489 Год назад

I believe he is with the lord Jesus. Its not sad we still have hes music. Just like christ we have he's words.

@MrGlock509 12 лет назад

i live in cartersville

@joefrady6669 5 лет назад

One of my favorites

@DanCohoon 2 года назад

It's better than you being here alone...

@Billw0006 3 года назад

What a wonderful song.

@tekay44 Год назад

what a song. wow.

@tekay44 Год назад

This, and My Old Man by John Prine, if you are really feeling the blues. Just great story telling. deep in so many different ways.

@Johnny-xw7mf Год назад

Pure Country Music Gold Johnny from Alabama 🎶🎶🎶 wooooooo

@jennifursun3303 8 лет назад

his bio is very interesting

@bigbadbarbiepodcastchannel2682 6 лет назад

Perfect storytelling, A wannabee country singer who may or may not have a "record" coming out soon, hanging out with a woman who doesn't want to come in and meet his family (hungover), obvious small talk ie. Cattle, rings, nightclubs, mother's headstone never addressing the elephant in the room, he didn't come home when his mother died so his sister and brother had to do all the arrangements, I have a brother that does the same thing, swoops in after everything is done, probably dropped by to see if she left him anything. ITS GREAT TOM T. HALL!!!!!

@douglasmacarthur8775 6 лет назад

Zach, you nailed it perfectly !

@williamramsay4748 6 лет назад

Your a ass

@vvv7379 5 лет назад

@@williamramsay4748 maybe, but he's right

@rodgerarmstrong1711 5 лет назад

If I may, Zack, your comments right or wrong are very crude. When I was on a tour, I missed my mothers funeral. That was 1996 The phones in Mexico were cut and I never knew. Respectfully, until you have been on a tour especially in the late Sixties (60) it is not a ' bed of roses ' if I may listen to Bob Seager Turn the page, as that"s dead on how it is...

@greghenderson3266 4 года назад

I miss you chuck i remember listening to this album with you and .shoe shine man

@libertyann439 Месяц назад

I was just thinking of this song yesterday!

@bobreams5178 2 года назад

There's an entire story in and between practically every line of this song, more of the unsaid that spoken. It takes a genuine storyteller to write such wonderful poetry.