Songs of Home

[kyounge1956]

Purron put this one on the "so nervous" thread.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House - YouTube


I don't know why, but I find "Solsbury Hill" highly evocative of that "home" feeling. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel (live) - YouTube

What's your "song of home"?

 

[HFWR]

Couldn't find "That Godforsaken Hellhole I Call Home", so this will have to do...

Encore: Austin Lounge LIzards 86 "Anahuac" - YouTube

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Welcome to Oregon:
Swamps of Home - YouTube

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

An' a'course:
Looking Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival - YouTube

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

The wettest sky's you'll ever see...
The Bluest Skies You've Ever Seen Are In Seattle - YouTube
Home once-upon-a-time. A toss-up for me: Copenhagen or Seattle. Love'm both, can't afford either one.

I'm tearin' up here. Bye now.

 

[Sarah in SC]

But of course!
Little Feat,Bonnie Raitt- Dixie Chicken - YouTube

Bonus for featuring Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, too.

 

[David1961]

Country road - YouTube

 

[Purron]

Home...

 

[martyb]

Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor - YouTube

 

[mh]

California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys) - YouTube

 

[smileydog]

Georgia on my Mind- Ray Charles - YouTube

 

[W2R]

I take it the idea is songs about home in general, and not about our specific home turf? If so, this old country song comes to mind. There are many versions, by artists like Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and others. But I like this one.

Elvis..Green Green Grass Of Home.. - YouTube

 

[Alan]

For me, The Fog on the Tyne reminds me of home more than any other song.

Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne - YouTube


Translation here:

Sittin' in a sleazy snack-bar
Suckin', sickly sausage rolls
Slippin' down slowly, slippin' down sideways
Think I'll sign off the dole

Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine

Could a copper catch a crooked coffin maker
Could a copper comprehend
That a crooked coffin maker is just an undertaker
Who undertakes to be a friend?

And the fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine


Tell it to tomorrow, today will take it's time
To tell you what tonight will bring
Presently we'll have a pint or two together
Everybody do their thing

We can swing together, we can have a wee wee
We can have a wet on the wall
If someone slips a whisper that its simple sister
Slapped them down and slavered on their smalls

'Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine

Fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine​

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[73ss454]

Alvin Lee can get it on.

Alvin Lee / Ten Years Later - I'm Going Home / 1978 - YouTube

 

[Purron]

California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys) - YouTube

Wow, THE DKS! Thanks mh.

 

[mh]

Wow, THE DKS! Thanks mh.

You are welcome. May your aura smile and never frown.

 

[HFWR]

You are welcome. May your aura smile and never frown.

But is your aura "real Angora"?

 

[calmloki]

Alvin Lee can get it on.

Alvin Lee / Ten Years Later - I'm Going Home / 1978 - YouTube

Damn. Not home, but vivid memories of that song blasting over the 1MC as the cruiser Long Beach left active service off Viet Nam's sunny coastlines and put the hammer down for home.. Best acoustics ever.

 

[Koolau]

A couple that evoke thoughts of GOING back home:

Back Home Again John Denver - YouTube

and my favorite version of:

Six Days on the Road Dave Dudley - YouTube

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Someone who remembers!
Six Days on the Road Dave Dudley - YouTube
Koolau, we grok!

 

[freebird5825]

New York State Of Mind / Billy Joel - YouTube

 

[freebird5825]

And I cannot forget Ol' Blue Eyes...


NEW YORK,NEW YORK - YouTube

 

[Janet H]

And a different view of home

Stan Rogers-Second Effort - YouTube

 

[Htown Harry]

A couple for you, Sarah...

bonnie raitt, coming home - YouTube

Can't Find My Way Home - Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George & John Hammond Jr & Freebo - YouTube

 

[Htown Harry]

Luther Vandross brings Dionne Warwick (singer of the original hit in 1964) to tears:

a house is not a home - YouTube