Take Me Home

Words and music © 2025 by Tom Maynard
Tom Maynard: Vocals, guitars
Joe Clapp: Electric guitar

This song was inspired by a workshop with Lorraine Hammond at a Winter Acoustic Music Weekend (WAMW). We were asked to base a song on a quatrain. It resonates especially with my time when I was out on the Appalachian Trail in 2017, after weeks and weeks away from home and my wife Debbie.

Oh, and I might add that you might hear a famous quatrain I started with in there somewhere.

Lyrics:
Ice is melting, sun on snow
Gray becoming blue
Geese in V’s reflected there
On northing wings they flew

Would such wings but take me home
Watch brown becoming green
As the sun renews the earth
Your heart’s hearth waits for me

Home fires burning
Spring returning
I’m yearning for the road to
Take me home

It baffles me, how it could be
That I’m so far away
Why should my journey lead so far
My heart told me to stay

I’m trapped inside this motel room
Still hours until the dawn
Then I’ll slide behind the wheel
in the first rays of the sun

Sun ascending
Winter ending
Road, wending onward, oh
Please take me home

You are there at journey’s end
No need to wander more
There’s no other gold to find
Than you behind our door

Home fires burning
Spring returning
I’m yearning for the road to
Take me home

Sun ascending
Winter ending
Road, wending onward, oh
Please take me home

I’m yearning for the road t
Take me home