Tablature homecoming - Tom T Hall

          



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  Date: 5/29/97; 12:16:07 AM

  From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)

  Subject: HOMECOMING

  

  

  HOMECOMING

  Words and music by Tom T. Hall

  

  [G] I guess I should've written, Dad

  To let you know that I was comin' home ...

  [C] I've been gone so many years

  I didn't realize you had a phone ...

  I [G] saw your cattle comin' in

  Boy, they're looking mighty fat and slick ...

  I [C] saw Fred at the service station

  [D7] Told me that his wife is awful [G] 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

  An' 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 lookin' 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 where I work ...

  You meet a lot of people there, but no

  There ain't much chance of gettin' hurt. ...

  

  CHANGE TO A:

  [A] I'm sorry that I couldn't be here

  With you all when Momma passed away ...

  [D] I was on the road and when they came

  And told me it was just too late ...

  I [A] drove by the grave to see her

  Boy, that really is a pretty stone ...

  I'm [D] glad that Fred and Jan are here

  It's [E7] better than you being here a-[A] lone. ...

  

  Well, I knew you's gonna ask me

  Who the lady is that's sleepin' 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. ...

  

  [A] Well, Dad, I gotta go, we got a dance

  To work in Cartersville tonight ...

  [D] Let me take your number down, I'll call you

  And I promise you I'll write ...

  Now [A] you be good and don't be chasin'

  All those pretty women that you know ...

  And [D] by the way if you see Barbara [E7] Walker

  Tell her that "I said [A] Hello." 


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 Homecoming, de Tom t hall 

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