Country music legend Dolly Parton co-wrote her song “Home” alongside Kent Wells. The tune is featured on her forty-fifth solo studio album, Blue Smoke, which was released in 2014. Watch the official music video below!
“Home” Lyrics
Lookin’ outta my windowpane
Tears minglin’ with the rain
I’m so lonesome I could cry, just like old Hank
Starin’ down on the city street
Feelin’ empty and incomplete
There’s a place I need to be to fill my tank
A place I can go where I can be free
Where I can be happy and I just be me
Ho-o-ome
Where the warm wind’s blowin’ and the river’s flowin’ along
Like a lazy bum in the midday sun
And I’ve gone fishin’ with my pole at the fishin’ hole
Where I can lay down my heavy load
And know that I am always welcome home
I left home I was seventeen
I had a lot of ambitious dreams
Seen a lot of those dreams come true, I’ve had good luck
I ain’t complain’ that’s for sure
I got a lot to be thankful for
One of those things is a magic door that opens up
Back to the time when I was a kid
To the sounds of crickets and the katydids
It’s called ho-o-ome
On the front porch swingin’
And the fern pots hangin’
Ho-o-ome
With the church bells ringin’
And voices singin’
Those old songs that mend my mind like a stitch in time
Where the tea is sweet and the love complete
Oh me, I wanna go ho-o-ome
I often think about where I have been
Where I am goin’ and that’s about when I think about
Ho-o-ome
Where the soul finds comfort and the heart finds pleasure
Ho-o-ome
Where the depths of love is hard to measure
It’s ho-o-ome
I hear you callin’, I hear you callin’
I’ll never be lost as long as I know
There’s place like that where I can go
Where I can restore my weary soul
On the mountain slopes in the soft blue smoke
Of ho-o-ome
Home sweeet home. Ho-o-ome
Back to the hills with the whippoorwills
Of ho-o-ome
With the fireflies blinkin’ and the night stars winkin’
Ho-o-ome
Honeysuckle vine and Muscadine wine
At ho-o-ome
Where the ginseng grows in the shady groves of ho-o-ome
With family and friends and joy that never ends
Ho-o-ome
There’s no place like it, no place like it
Ho-ome
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