From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (rick)
Album: Emmylou Harris "At The Ryman"
Reprise Records 7599 26664-2 (1992)
Words and music: Doyle Lawson, Charles Waller, Robert Yates


Calling My Children Home

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Those lives were mine to love and cherish
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To guard and guide along life's way
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Oh God forbid that one should perish
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That one alas should go astray
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Back in the years with all together
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Around the place we'd romp and play
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So lonely now I oft' times wonder
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Oh will they come back home some day
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I'm lonesome for my precious children
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They live so far away
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Oh may they hear my calling...calling.. and come back home some day
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I gave my all for my dear children
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Their problems still with love I share,
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I'd brave life's storm, defy the tempest
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To bring them home from anywhere
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I lived my life my love I gave them,
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to guide them through this world of strife,
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I hope and pray we'll live together
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In that great glad here after life
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I'm lonesome for my precious children
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They live so far away
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Oh may they hear my calling...calling.. and come back home some day