Till sweat soaked the shirt on his back

Making a living the best way he could

With hands that were callused and cracked

Time has made so many changes

These twenty years I’ve been gone

I told mom and dad that some day I’d be back

But, I guess that I’ve waited too long

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Where is the boy with the sling shot

Who guarded the homestead back then

Where is the life that I used to call mine

It’s gone like a candle in the wind

There’s two lonely graves on a hilltop

An old farm that’s wasting away

Fields that an old man once tendered with love

Grow nothing but tall weeds today

The old barn is sagging and fallen

Roses grow wild on the land

The old farm don’t look like it did when it was

Part of a woman and her man

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Now mom and dad’s just a memory

And here I am standing all alone

Sadly remembering a line someone wrote

It said you could never go home

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