Текст песни: A Long Way Home + перевод

as I was out walkin' one cool summer’s evenin'

the sky was all shadowed and scattered with rain

an old gentleman busker I happened to pass

with harmonica melodies played in refrain

I reached in my pocket for money to pay

I knew it was true for he played it that way

it’s a long way home

many a mile to a bed of your own

it’s a long way home

weary you’ve grown on your own

oh I stood by the river that ran through the city

with waters that washed away off to the sea

six thousand miles to the Northwest Pacific

a long-distance vision in faint memory

sometimes you know it gets so hard to see

then somebody tells you just where you should be

old Grandmother Angel with baskets of flowers

and newspaper packages under her arm

she talked as she walked with her friends the invisibles

easy to be with they meant her no harm

all of the others have moved under ground

but she’s never alone when her friends are around

oh the world it is wide and far 'round its borders

from the west to the east it’s a long way to go

to pick up your roots and to travel all over

to take a good look to see how much you know

not to get fooled or to let it slip loose

but to take it in hand and to put it to use

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