Gordon Lightfoot – Home From The Forest (Guitar)

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Oh, the neon lights were flashing and the icy wind did blow

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The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow 

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His eyes were red, his hopes were dead and the wine was running low 

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And the old man came home

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From the forest

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His tears fell on the sidewalk as he stumbled in the street 

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A dozen faces stopped to stare, but no one stopped to speak

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For his castle was a hallway and the bottle was his friend 

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And the old man stumbled in

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From the forest

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Up a dark and dingy staircase the old man made his way

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His ragged coat around him, as upon his cot he lay 

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And he wondered how it happened that he ended up this way 

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Getting lost like a fool

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In the forest

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And as he lay there sleeping a vision did appear 

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Upon his mantle shining, a face of one so dear 

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Who had loved him in the springtime of a long forgotten year

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When the wildflowers did bloom

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In the forest

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She touched his grizzled fingers and she called him by his name

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And then he heard the joyful sound of children at their games 

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In an old house on a hillside, in some forgotten town 

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Where the river runs down

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From the forest

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With a mighty roar the big jet soars above the canyon streets 

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And the con men con, but life goes on, for the city never sleeps

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And to an old forgotten soldier, the dawn will come no more 

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For the old man has come home

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From the forest