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Homeward Bound
Written by Paul on 'his tour of 'one night stands' in England in September 1965. 'If you know Widnes, then you'll understand how I was desperately trying to get back to London as quickly as possible. "Homeward Bound" came out of that feeling.' 'I remember playing a concert somewhere in the middle of Germany. It's strange enough to be in Germany, and when I finished playing, I was thinking, I hate Homeward Bound And then I thought, Why do I hate it ? I said "Oh, I hate the words." So I went over them. And then I remembered where I wrote it. I was in Liverpool, actually in a railway station. I'd just played a little folk job. The job of a folk singer in those days was to be Bob Dylan. You had to be a poet. That's what they wanted. And I thought that was a drag. And I wanted to get home to my girlfriend, Kathy in London. I was 22. And then I thought, Well, that's not a bad song at all for a 22-year-old kid. It's actually quite touching now that I see it. So I wonder what's so embarrassing to me about it. Then I said, "I know! It's that I don't want to be singing that song as Simon and Garfunkel!"'

Homeward Bound

I'm sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket for my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Ev'ry day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories
And ev'ry stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be,
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.

Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Silently for me.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club lwj001 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-241243 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-241208 Fri, 04 May 2007 22:46:58 +0000
BTW, it's Earlestown Station that's the oldest in the world - Earlestown being a suburb of Newton-le-Willows. And about 7-8 miles away is Widnes, where a guy by the name of Paul Simon sat on a bench at the station and wrote "Homeward Bound" - there used to be a plaque on the wall, but it's been vandalised so many times it's been taken down now. Shame!

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-241208 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-240755 Tue, 01 May 2007 19:55:14 +0000 What are hobos called in Newton-le-Willows in merry 'ol England?


Here's your train station.


The first locomotive built at the Vulcan yard was in 1833.
Note: #6273 was the last steam locomotive tested at Vulcan Foundry on 13th January 1956)]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club lwj001 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-240755 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-240734 Tue, 01 May 2007 18:24:32 +0000
:D :D :D

Vic]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-240734 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-240024 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:36:15 +0000 I created separate pages just for train and trucking songs:

Train Songs:
http://www.kingwoodkowboy.com/trainsongs.html

Trucking Songs:
http://www.kingwoodkowboy.com/truckingsongs.html

Island Songs:
http://www.kingwoodkowboy.com/islandsonglyrics1.html]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club lwj001 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-240024 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-239992 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:53:09 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club causnorign https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-239992 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/ghost-train/#post-25353 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:28:10 +0000 http://www.kingwoodkowboy.com/

Ghost Train (Larry W. Jones 04/26/2007) (song#4613)

The old train was standing on the side track
Four hobos climbin' in the boxcar at the back
I decided to take a look in the old car up front
That's when I heard the whistle and the bump

Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Me and four hobos ridin' to the twilight zone tonight

Ghost train went clickity clack, clickity clack and bump
As it rattled on down the tracks with a thumpity thump
Then it went through a tunnel so dark a cat couldn't see
Hobos were screamin', scared my 'ol heart right out of me

Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Me and four hobos ridin' to the twilight zone tonight

Said to myself, sonny this train ride's the end of you
Now it ain't so funny when a sane man goes crazy too
I can't understand it all or just how I got back here
It must have been a dream down a train track of fear

Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Ghost train, ghost train we ride
Me and four hobos ridin' to the twilight zone tonight

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