Tony Rice - Home From The Forest guitar chord

HOME FROM THE FOREST

Lightfoot (Tony Rice - E)

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Oh, the neon lights are flashing and the icy wind did blow

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The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow

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His eyes were red, his hopes were dead and the wine was runnin' low

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And the old man came home from the forest

His tears fell on the sidewalk as he stumbled in the street

A dozen faces stopped to stare but no one stopped to speak

For his castle was a hallway and the bottle, his only friend

And the old man stumbled in from the forest

Up a dark and dingy staircase the old man made his way

His ragged coat around him as upon his cot he lay

And he wondered how it happened that he ended up this way

Gettin' lost like a fool in the forest

And as he lay there sleepin' a vision did appear

Upon his metal shining the face of one so dear

Who loved him in the springtime of a long forgotten year

When the wild flowers did bloom in the forest

She touched his grizzled fingers and she called him by his name

And then he heard the joyful sound of children at their games

In an old house on a hillside in some forgotten town

Where the river runs down from the forest

With a mighty roar, the big jets soar, above the canyon stream

And the con men come, but life goes on for the city never sleeps

And to an old forgotten soldier, the dawn won't come no more

For the old man has come home from the forest