Home From The Forest:Ronnie Hawkins.
#29 in 1970.
#1.
D G
Oh, the neon lights were flashing, and the icy wind
D
did blow.
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The water seeped in..to his shoes, and the drizzle
D
turned to snow.
G D
His eyes were red, his hopes were dead and the
Bm F#
wine was running low..
G A D
and the old man came home..from the forest.
#2.
D G D
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.
G D Bm F#
For his castle was a hallway and the bottle was his friend..
G A D
and the old man stumbled in..from the forest.
#3.
D G D
Up a dark and dingy staircase, the old man made his way..
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his ragged coat around him as up..on his cot he lay.
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And he wondered how it happened, that he ended up this way..
G A D
getting lost like a fool..in the forest.
#4.
D G D
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..
G A D
when the wildflowers did bloom..in the forest.
#5.
D G D
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,
G A D
where the river runs down..from the forest.
#6.
D G D
With a mighty roar the big jets soar 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 for an old forgotten soldier, the dawn will come no more..
G A D
for the old man has come home..from the forest.
OUTRO:
D G A D
Yes, the old man has come home..from the forest.
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
