Chords for Tom T. Hall, Homecoming
Tempo:
87.35 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
B
F#
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I've got my lyrics here, I take them around with me so I can remember the words.
I'm gonna look in here and see if there's a real good one.
That moon song's hard to follow.
Why did they call it Tranquility Days?
It's a good place to say.
[E] [Bm]
[F#] [A#] I want to sing this song year after year after year.
[N] This is the biographical, most of my songs are biographical.
I was not very good at making up songs.
I was a very efficient, proficient liar.
You'd think I could have made up a song.
It [G] [E] never really happened, but [B] it didn't work for me so I just [E] wrote down things I [B] knew about.
This is a song about a young man who takes his guitar and [E] goes out to be a picker.
[A] [B] [E]
[C] Comes home to see how the old folks [F#] were doing.
[A] I didn't have any better sentencing to write a lot of songs that didn't have the title in them.
[C] I've read your songwriting book and one of the things in there is that you're supposed to refer to the [Am] title in the chorus.
[B] This song never even says the title, the words not even in the song, there's no chorus.
I've got a whole bunch of songs that people come up and say, [F] they give me a line out of the song, that's how they know [E] what it's about.
They don't know the name of the song.
They never did.
If you've heard this song and don't know the name of it, [B] it's called Homecoming.
But it doesn't say [E] anything about that either.
How many older guys have been here and done this?
Well I guess I should have written that to let you know that I was coming home.
[A] I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a father.
[E] Hey I saw your cattle coming in, boys looking mighty fat and slim.
Hey [A] I saw Fred at the service station, [B] he told me that his wife was off [E] at the same.
Well you heard my record on the radio, hey it's just another song.
But [A] I've got to get it recorded and it'll be out on the market for too long.
[E] Oh I got this ring in Mexico, I know it didn't cost me quite a bunch.
Oh [A] when you're in the business that I'm [B] in, the people call it, they put you [E] up a punch.
Well I know I've lost a little weight, I guess I am looking kind of pale.
Oh [A] if you didn't know me better dad, you'd think that I'd just gotten out of jail.
[E] Although we don't ever call them beer joints, nightclubs, other places where I work.
[A] Yeah you meet a lot of people there, [B] but no there ain't no chance of [E] getting hurt.
Well I'm sorry that I couldn't be here with you all when mama passed away.
[A] You see I was on the road when they came and told me it was just too late.
[E] Oh I stopped by the grave to see her, boy that really is pretty strong.
[A] You know I'm glad that Fred and Jan are [B] here, it's better than you being [E] here alone.
Well I knew you was going to ask me who that lady is that's sleeping in the car.
[A] Well that's just the girl that works for me and man she plays a pretty mean guitar.
You know [E] we worked in San Antone last night and she didn't even have the time to dress.
You know [A] she drove me down from Nashville [B] into Telstra with the gas you need [E] to rest.
Hey well dad I gotta go, I gotta dance at the work in Carterville tonight.
Oh [A] let me take your number down I'll call you and I promise you I'll write.
[E] You be good and don't be chasing all those pretty women that you know.
[A] Oh and by the way if you see Barbara [B] Walker tell her that I [E] said hello.
[Em] [F#]
[N]
Who's Barbara Walker?
I just kind of made the name up.
Change the name to [Em] protect the innocent or [N] the not so innocent.
But there's several songs of yours about your childhood that feature Barbara.
Oh really?
It's a cynical name.
I'll do one and then you can
I'm gonna look in here and see if there's a real good one.
That moon song's hard to follow.
Why did they call it Tranquility Days?
It's a good place to say.
[E] [Bm]
[F#] [A#] I want to sing this song year after year after year.
[N] This is the biographical, most of my songs are biographical.
I was not very good at making up songs.
I was a very efficient, proficient liar.
You'd think I could have made up a song.
It [G] [E] never really happened, but [B] it didn't work for me so I just [E] wrote down things I [B] knew about.
This is a song about a young man who takes his guitar and [E] goes out to be a picker.
[A] [B] [E]
[C] Comes home to see how the old folks [F#] were doing.
[A] I didn't have any better sentencing to write a lot of songs that didn't have the title in them.
[C] I've read your songwriting book and one of the things in there is that you're supposed to refer to the [Am] title in the chorus.
[B] This song never even says the title, the words not even in the song, there's no chorus.
I've got a whole bunch of songs that people come up and say, [F] they give me a line out of the song, that's how they know [E] what it's about.
They don't know the name of the song.
They never did.
If you've heard this song and don't know the name of it, [B] it's called Homecoming.
But it doesn't say [E] anything about that either.
How many older guys have been here and done this?
Well I guess I should have written that to let you know that I was coming home.
[A] I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a father.
[E] Hey I saw your cattle coming in, boys looking mighty fat and slim.
Hey [A] I saw Fred at the service station, [B] he told me that his wife was off [E] at the same.
Well you heard my record on the radio, hey it's just another song.
But [A] I've got to get it recorded and it'll be out on the market for too long.
[E] Oh I got this ring in Mexico, I know it didn't cost me quite a bunch.
Oh [A] when you're in the business that I'm [B] in, the people call it, they put you [E] up a punch.
Well I know I've lost a little weight, I guess I am looking kind of pale.
Oh [A] if you didn't know me better dad, you'd think that I'd just gotten out of jail.
[E] Although we don't ever call them beer joints, nightclubs, other places where I work.
[A] Yeah you meet a lot of people there, [B] but no there ain't no chance of [E] getting hurt.
Well I'm sorry that I couldn't be here with you all when mama passed away.
[A] You see I was on the road when they came and told me it was just too late.
[E] Oh I stopped by the grave to see her, boy that really is pretty strong.
[A] You know I'm glad that Fred and Jan are [B] here, it's better than you being [E] here alone.
Well I knew you was going to ask me who that lady is that's sleeping in the car.
[A] Well that's just the girl that works for me and man she plays a pretty mean guitar.
You know [E] we worked in San Antone last night and she didn't even have the time to dress.
You know [A] she drove me down from Nashville [B] into Telstra with the gas you need [E] to rest.
Hey well dad I gotta go, I gotta dance at the work in Carterville tonight.
Oh [A] let me take your number down I'll call you and I promise you I'll write.
[E] You be good and don't be chasing all those pretty women that you know.
[A] Oh and by the way if you see Barbara [B] Walker tell her that I [E] said hello.
[Em] [F#]
[N]
Who's Barbara Walker?
I just kind of made the name up.
Change the name to [Em] protect the innocent or [N] the not so innocent.
But there's several songs of yours about your childhood that feature Barbara.
Oh really?
It's a cynical name.
I'll do one and then you can
Key:
E
A
B
F#
C
E
A
B
I've got my lyrics here, I take them around with me so I can remember the words. _
I'm gonna look in here and see if there's a real good one.
_ That moon song's hard to follow.
_ _ _ _ _ Why did they call it Tranquility Days?
It's a good place to say.
[E] _ _ [Bm] _
[F#] _ _ _ [A#] I want to sing this song year after year after year.
[N] _ This is the biographical, most of my songs are biographical.
I was not very good at making up songs. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I was a very efficient, proficient liar.
_ You'd think I could have made up a song.
It [G] [E] never really happened, but [B] it didn't work for me so I just [E] wrote down _ things I [B] knew about.
This is a song about a young man who takes his guitar and _ [E] goes out to be a picker.
_ [A] _ _ [B] _ [E] _
[C] Comes home to see how the old folks [F#] were doing.
[A] I didn't have any better sentencing to write a lot of songs that didn't have the title in them.
[C] I've read your songwriting book and one of the things in there is that you're supposed to refer to the [Am] title in the chorus.
_ [B] This song never even says the title, the words not even in the song, there's no chorus.
I've got a whole bunch of songs that people come up and say, [F] they give me a line out of the song, that's how they know [E] what it's about.
They don't know the name of the song.
They never did.
If you've heard this song and don't know the name of it, [B] it's called Homecoming.
But it doesn't say [E] anything about that either. _ _ _ _
How _ _ _ _ _ _ many older guys have been here and done this? _ _ _ _ _
_ Well I guess I should have written that to let you know that I was coming home.
_ _ _ [A] I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a father. _
_ _ [E] Hey I saw your cattle coming in, boys looking mighty fat and slim.
_ _ _ Hey [A] I saw Fred at the service station, [B] he told me that his wife was off [E] at the same. _
_ _ Well you heard my record on the radio, hey it's just another song.
_ _ But [A] I've got to get it recorded and it'll be out on the market for too long.
_ _ _ [E] Oh I got this ring in Mexico, I know it didn't cost me quite a bunch.
_ _ Oh [A] when you're in the business that I'm [B] in, the people call it, they put you [E] up a punch. _
_ _ _ Well I know I've lost a little weight, I guess I am looking kind of pale.
_ _ Oh [A] if you didn't know me better dad, you'd think that I'd just gotten out of jail.
_ _ _ [E] Although we don't ever call them beer joints, nightclubs, other places where I work. _ _ _
[A] Yeah you meet a lot of people there, [B] but no there ain't no chance of [E] getting hurt. _
_ _ Well I'm sorry that I couldn't be here with you all when mama passed away. _ _ _
[A] You see I was on the road when they came and told me it was just too late.
_ _ _ [E] Oh I stopped by the grave to see her, boy that really is pretty strong. _ _ _
[A] You know I'm glad that Fred and Jan are [B] here, it's better than you being [E] here alone.
_ _ _ Well I knew you was going to ask me who that lady is that's sleeping in the car. _ _ _
[A] Well that's just the girl that works for me and man she plays a pretty mean guitar. _
_ _ You know [E] we worked in San Antone last night and she didn't even have the time to dress.
_ _ _ You know [A] she drove me down from Nashville [B] into Telstra with the gas you need [E] to rest. _
_ _ Hey well dad I gotta go, I gotta dance at the work in Carterville tonight.
_ _ _ Oh [A] let me take your number down I'll call you and I promise you I'll write. _
_ _ _ [E] You be good and don't be chasing all those pretty women that you know.
_ _ _ [A] Oh and by the way if you see Barbara [B] Walker tell her that I [E] said hello. _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Who's Barbara Walker?
_ I just kind of made the name up.
_ _ Change the name to [Em] protect the innocent or [N] the not so innocent.
But there's several songs of yours about your childhood that feature Barbara. _
Oh really?
_ _ It's a cynical name.
I'll do one and then you can
I'm gonna look in here and see if there's a real good one.
_ That moon song's hard to follow.
_ _ _ _ _ Why did they call it Tranquility Days?
It's a good place to say.
[E] _ _ [Bm] _
[F#] _ _ _ [A#] I want to sing this song year after year after year.
[N] _ This is the biographical, most of my songs are biographical.
I was not very good at making up songs. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I was a very efficient, proficient liar.
_ You'd think I could have made up a song.
It [G] [E] never really happened, but [B] it didn't work for me so I just [E] wrote down _ things I [B] knew about.
This is a song about a young man who takes his guitar and _ [E] goes out to be a picker.
_ [A] _ _ [B] _ [E] _
[C] Comes home to see how the old folks [F#] were doing.
[A] I didn't have any better sentencing to write a lot of songs that didn't have the title in them.
[C] I've read your songwriting book and one of the things in there is that you're supposed to refer to the [Am] title in the chorus.
_ [B] This song never even says the title, the words not even in the song, there's no chorus.
I've got a whole bunch of songs that people come up and say, [F] they give me a line out of the song, that's how they know [E] what it's about.
They don't know the name of the song.
They never did.
If you've heard this song and don't know the name of it, [B] it's called Homecoming.
But it doesn't say [E] anything about that either. _ _ _ _
How _ _ _ _ _ _ many older guys have been here and done this? _ _ _ _ _
_ Well I guess I should have written that to let you know that I was coming home.
_ _ _ [A] I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a father. _
_ _ [E] Hey I saw your cattle coming in, boys looking mighty fat and slim.
_ _ _ Hey [A] I saw Fred at the service station, [B] he told me that his wife was off [E] at the same. _
_ _ Well you heard my record on the radio, hey it's just another song.
_ _ But [A] I've got to get it recorded and it'll be out on the market for too long.
_ _ _ [E] Oh I got this ring in Mexico, I know it didn't cost me quite a bunch.
_ _ Oh [A] when you're in the business that I'm [B] in, the people call it, they put you [E] up a punch. _
_ _ _ Well I know I've lost a little weight, I guess I am looking kind of pale.
_ _ Oh [A] if you didn't know me better dad, you'd think that I'd just gotten out of jail.
_ _ _ [E] Although we don't ever call them beer joints, nightclubs, other places where I work. _ _ _
[A] Yeah you meet a lot of people there, [B] but no there ain't no chance of [E] getting hurt. _
_ _ Well I'm sorry that I couldn't be here with you all when mama passed away. _ _ _
[A] You see I was on the road when they came and told me it was just too late.
_ _ _ [E] Oh I stopped by the grave to see her, boy that really is pretty strong. _ _ _
[A] You know I'm glad that Fred and Jan are [B] here, it's better than you being [E] here alone.
_ _ _ Well I knew you was going to ask me who that lady is that's sleeping in the car. _ _ _
[A] Well that's just the girl that works for me and man she plays a pretty mean guitar. _
_ _ You know [E] we worked in San Antone last night and she didn't even have the time to dress.
_ _ _ You know [A] she drove me down from Nashville [B] into Telstra with the gas you need [E] to rest. _
_ _ Hey well dad I gotta go, I gotta dance at the work in Carterville tonight.
_ _ _ Oh [A] let me take your number down I'll call you and I promise you I'll write. _
_ _ _ [E] You be good and don't be chasing all those pretty women that you know.
_ _ _ [A] Oh and by the way if you see Barbara [B] Walker tell her that I [E] said hello. _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Who's Barbara Walker?
_ I just kind of made the name up.
_ _ Change the name to [Em] protect the innocent or [N] the not so innocent.
But there's several songs of yours about your childhood that feature Barbara. _
Oh really?
_ _ It's a cynical name.
I'll do one and then you can