Back Home in Laramie
by Sevenstars
SUMMARY: To welcome in a New Year, a Jess-heading-home filk, this one based on my very favorite Stoneman Family country song, "Back to Nashville, Tennessee," a bouncy tune with a great jew's-harp accompaniment; you can find it on YouTube.
I'm wearied out with all this wanderin',
Done the work that was laid on me,
Now I'm goin' where my heart is,
Where my fam'ly waits for me,
Back home to Laramie.
Josephine waited for Napoleon,
Juliet waited for Romeo,
Lancelot waited for Arthur's Guinevere,
And folks are waitin' there for me,
Back home in Laramie.
Don't wanta be no aimless drifter,
Don't wanta be no gun for hire,
Don't wanta be no worthless saddle-tramp,
All I ever wanta be
Is back home in Laramie.
[Fiddle bridge]
Geese oughtta fly south with the wintertime,
Rivers oughtta flow to the sea,
Apples oughtta grow on apple trees,
And I oughtta be where I oughtta be,
Back home in Laramie.
Some folks smoke that Chinese opium,
Some folks take laudanum pills,
Some folks take their mornin' joe,
But all I need to take is me
Back home to Laramie.
When it's teatime out in London, England,
Midnight in the Chinese Empire,
Eight o'clock in San Francisco,
That's when I'm gonna be
Back home in Laramie.
[Fiddle and Jew's-harp fading out]
