Lyr Req: You're My Home (Billy Joel)

Subject: Looking for a song...For 4 years!
From: mela
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 11:56 AM

Hello all.

I have been looking for a song for a very long time. I heard it once on a mixed tape and wan't to use it for my wedding. I don not know who wrote it, for awhile I thought it was John Denver, but now I am not so sure. It is a love song, about how no matter where the lovers travel, homw is with the other person. If I were to title the song, I would call it "You are my Home" but this is just a guess. It talks about the coast of California, New Orleans and North Carolina...but that is all I know. I know this is a stretch, but the person who identifies the song will have my eternal gratitude...THANKS!

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 12:23 PM

Do you have a string of words...perhaps something more than "you are my home"? It would make it easier to identify.

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 12:45 PM

Meanwhile, you might consider this lovely song by that name which is taken from the musical version of "The Scarlet Pimpernel". The liberetto is available in many music stores.


You Are My Home

From this day on, I give myself to you
Here in my arms, you will be free
I only want you as you are
Give me your trust
Grow old with me

I promise you to cherish and to hold
Now and as long as we both live
I'll make you laugh, I'll keep you warm
There is so much I want to give

You are my home
You make me strong
And in this world of strangers
I belong to someone
You are all I know
You're all I have
I won't let go

God above, shine through this love
To make us man and wife
This is what I've wanted all my life

You are my home
You make me strong
And in this world of strangers
I belong to someone
You are all I know
You're all I have I need you so
I won't let go
You are my home

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: mela
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 02:03 PM

Thanks! I appreciate the Scarlet Pimpernel song, but thats not it.

I don't really have a string of words either...I think it was something to the effect of

From the coast of California Or the ____ of New Orleans..

I believe it may talk about a castle. And ends up something like "No matter where I travel, you are my home"

I know I am terribly frustrating, but I appreciate your help!

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 03:43 PM

YOU are NOT terriby frustrating. Finding the song is. All of us have songs we have sought for varying lengths of time. Often the trail is long and crooked - not to mention uphill! Funny how a song can haunt you for so long... I hope you find the song you seek.

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 04:15 PM

Cliff Eberhardt wrote and recorded a song called "Now You Are My Home"
Does this sound familiar? -
Back in my hometown I feel like a fugitive
Lookin at the old house where I lived when I was a kid
I got it from the clip on this website, where they sell the Eberhardt album.

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: mela
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 04:21 PM

nope...thats not it...but thanks for the attempt...the song lists a bunch of places where this person travels...another of which is Indiana (I just thoughtof that) so now I am searching for all songs with the word Indiana in them.

Thanks Allan for making me feel not-so-silly.

ditto previous sentiments of gratitude.

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Nogs
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 04:49 PM

how about Home is everywhere you are (Tom Paxton,I believe). Something like: You can tell me to leave and I would go I would go but i would not go too far You could send me home but you would know That home is everywhere you are

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 07:14 PM

Well, mela, this one, from the Digital Tradition database has Indiana and New Orleans in it....maybe it's the right one? BTW, we do love a challenge, here at the Mudcat!

NEW HARMONY
(Craig Johnson)

Chorus:
And I've been sitting by the Ohio
Watching the tow boats rollin' up slow
Thinkin' of the places we used to go
You've been on my mind

1. Evening hillside, summertime
Jars we filled with fireflies
I remember you and I
Say, it's been a long long time

2. Rain across the bottom land
broken stones from an old mill dam
West wind blowin' in the dawnin' day
Enough to blow the blues my way

3. Rusty rails, an old river town
whistle blowin' New Orleans bound
Cornfields waitin' for the plow
All those things I can't tell you now.

4. Indiana country roads,
Winter's sky so deep and cold
New moon's arms, cradle the old
Come home songs on the radio.

copyright Craig Johnson
filename[ NEWHARM
DC

It would be helpful if you could tell us where you heard it. On the radio? A folk program? Was it a folk, pop, or rock hit? Etc.

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 09:38 PM

You don't really need a string of words, although a phrase helps cut down on false hits; if you have some words, no matter how disconnected, just enter them in the search box (WITHOUT SQUARE BRACKETS) and let 'er rip.

Subject: get aquainted
From: kendall morse (don't use)
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 05:24 PM

Anyone want to talk to Kendall Morse?

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 05:31 PM

Sure, Kendall! How about spinning a yarn for us?

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 05:59 PM

durn..Kendall/yarnspinner!!...Having had an album with your picture on it for 12-14 years, I feel like I DO know you...welcome!

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: mela
Date: 11 Aug 99 - 02:20 PM

hello friends. i picked up the Tom Paxton CD...while it is a good CD, it is not the song I am looking for. New Harmony (above) is not it either...The quest continues.

My memory is not allowing me to conjure up further phrases at this time, although I am trying!

The song was part of a mix tape that a friend of mine made for me and then got stuck in the cassette player in my car never to be retreived!

If anyone comes up with any further revelations let me know.

Thanks again! Pam

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: mela
Date: 03 Sep 99 - 04:10 PM

Its been awhile...I still haven't found my song...it is the most infuriating thing. I have been trying to think of other phrases. Maybe if I explain the premise of it, it will help. It is a love song sung by a man to a woman. And he is speaking of traveling all over the world, and no matter where he finds himself, he calls it home becuase she is there with him. I am searching diligently becuase it was the song that I "said goodbye" to my fiance to after college, and now we are getting married. The tape it was on subsequently got eaten by my car radio.

Again, it sounds John Dever-esque, but because it was a mixed tape given to me by someone else, I never really knew who sang the song.

As always, your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, mela

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Bert
Date: 03 Sep 99 - 04:46 PM

Kinda something like "You belong to me"?

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Kathy
Date: 03 Sep 99 - 09:21 PM

Can someone please help me find the lyrics to an old song? I thought the name of the song was There's A Star Spangle Heaven. I can't find the lyrics anywhere.I think the chorus goes like this..... there's a star spangle heaven for every soldier boy who died to keep our country free. So soldier trust in Jesus let him fill your heart with joy, he"ll be with you through out eternally

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: MichaelM
Date: 03 Sep 99 - 11:31 PM

Home could be the Pennsylvania Turnpike Indiana's early morning dew High up in the hills of Colorado Home is just another word for you.

Maybe? A very old Billy Joel song (may the gods of folk forgive me for Knowing this) eg. "I need you in my heart cause that's my home" or "Whenever we're together that's my home".

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: YOU'RE MY HOME (Billy Joel)
From: MichaelM
Date: 04 Sep 99 - 12:11 AM

Further to the Billy Joel possibility

YOU'RE MY HOME

CAPO: 5th fret

   INTRO:  C  C/B  Fsus4  F   C   C/B   Fsus4   G
  
   C         C/B          C7sus4
  When you look into my eyes
   
          F             Dm7         G
  And you see the crazy gypsy in my soul
   
  C         C/B           C7sus4
  It always comes as a surprise
   
         F                Dm7            G
  When I feel my withered roots begin to grow.
   
   
         Em7         Em7                F       F/E  Dm7
  Well I never had a place that I could call my very own
   
      F                  G                      C   C/B   Fsus4   G
  But that's alright, my love, 'cause you're my home.
   
   
  C        C/B            C7sus4
  When you touch my weary head
   
          F            Dm7             G
  And you tell me everything will be alright
   
            C      C/B           C7sus4
  You say, "Use my body for your bed.
   
         F                  Dm7                 G
  And my love will keep you warm throughout the night."
   
   
         Em7        Em7               F     F/E Dm7
  Well I never be a stranger and I'll never be  alone
   
      F            G                 C      C  C/B
  Wherever we're together, that's my home.
   
   
  Am              G            C         C  C/B
  Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike,
   
   
   
  Am        G             F
  Indiana's early morning dew, oh!
   
  Am             G            C       C  C/B
  High up in the hills of California,
   
  Am            G               F
  Home is just another word for you.
   
   
   
         Em7         Em7                F       F/E  Dm7
  Well I never had a place that I could call my very own.
   
      F                  G                      C   C/B   Fsus4   G
  But that's alright, my love, 'cause you're my home.
   
   
  C        C/B           C7sus4
  And if I travel all my life
   
        F            Dm7             G
  And I never get to stop and settle down
   
  C         C/B            C7sus4
  Long as I have you by my side, oh
   
          F               Dm7            G
  Theres a roof above and four walls all around.
   
   
            Em7               Em7           F       
F/E      Dm7  You're my castle, you're my cabin, and my instant pleasure dome.
   
    F              G                       C   C/B   Fsus4   G
  I need you in my house, 'cause you're my home.
   
            C  C/B  Fsus4  G  C  C/B  Fsus4  G  C  C/B  Fsus4  G
  You're my ho - me.

Line Breaks <br> added, and preformat <pre> (before the song) and </pre> (after) tags to space chords correctly.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: mela
Date: 10 Sep 99 - 02:00 PM

Michael you ROCK!!!!!!!!!

Thats it!!! (Apologies for it being Billy Joel, but isn't it a nice song?)

I can not explain how cool you are....

THANK YOU!!!!! Pam

also psyched to get that nagging phrase out of my head and into context.)

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 10 Sep 99 - 02:13 PM

Kathy--

Your request kinda got lost and buried here. At Mudcat, we try to keep each song request in its own thread, for just that reason. I've started a new thread for you: "Lyric Req: Star Spangle(d) Heaven." Look there for further responses.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: JR
Date: 10 Sep 99 - 03:30 PM

What a sad day... A Billy Joel song is solved, and my two Christy Minstrel songs request sunk to the bottom of the list, never to be seen again.

Subject: RE: Please help!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Sep 99 - 03:55 PM

Now, now, JR, don't be sad. All you have to do is use the filter, set it for 3 days or whatever, and find your old thread and post a new message to it. Your new message can be as simple as saying "refresh," and your thread will be brought back to the tippy-top of the Forum Menu.
Of course, if you have sinned and have used a generic thread name like this one (Please Help, Desperately Seeking Lyrics, Help Me Find a Song, Lyric Request), your thread will be lost in the mire forever, and rightly so.
For that matter, if you Click here you can see every message you've ever posted.
-Joe Offer-