Home From The Forest lyrics and chords

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Home From The Forest
Written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot

C                                        F            C
Oh the neon lights were flashin' and the icy wind did blow
                 Am       G7            F                 C
The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow
    F                 C                       Am               E7
His eyes were red his hopes were dead and the wine was runnin' low
            F        G7              C
And the old man came home   from the forest

                                     F               C
His tears fell on the sidewalk as he stumbled in the street
              Am         G7           F              C
A dozen faces stopped to stare but no one stopped to speak
        F            C               Am             E7
For his castle was a hallway and the bottle was his friend
            F            G7             C
And the old man stumbled in    from the forest

                                  F                C
Up a dark and dingy staircase the old man made his way
                Am         G7   F             C
His ragged coat around him as upon his cot he lay
       F               C                Am            E7
And he wondered how it happened that he ended up this way
        F           G7            C
Getting lost like a fool   in the forest

                               F          C
And as he lay there sleeping a vision did appear
                Am        F              C
Upon his mantle shining a face of one so dear
        F                C               Am             E7
Who had loved him in the springtime of a long-forgotten year
         F               G7              C
When the wildflowers did bloom    in the forest

                                         F                 C
She touched his grizzled fingers and she called him by his name
            Am        G7              F                 C
And then he heard the joyful sound of children at their games
      F              C           Am             E7
In an old house on a hillside in some forgotten town
          F          G7              C
Where the river runs down   from the forest

                                     F                C
With a mighty roar the big jets soar above the canyon streets
            Am          G7                   F          C
And the con men con but life goes on for the city never sleeps
          F             C           Am                E7
And to an old forgotten soldier the dawn will come no more
            F            G7              C
For the old man has come home   from the forest

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