Tom T. Hall - Homecoming

^EI guess I should've written, Dad, to let you know that I was coming home ^AI've been gone so many years, I didn't realize you had a phone ^EI saw your cattle coming in, boy they're looking mighty fat and slick ^AI saw Fred at the service station, ^Btold me that his wife is awful ^Esick ^EYou heard my record on the radio, oh, well it's just another song ^ABut I've got a hit recorded and it'll be out on the market 'fore too long ^EI got this ring in Mexico, no, it didn't cost me quite a bunch ^AWhen you're in the business that I'm in, ^Bthe people call it puttin' up a ^Efront ^EI know I've lost a little weight, I guess I am looking kind of pale ^AIf you didn't know me better, Dad, you'd think that I'd just gotten out of jail ^ENo, we don't ever call them beer joints, night clubs are the places that I work ^AYou meet a lot of people there, but ^Bno, there ain't much chance of gettin' ^Ehurt ^F#I'm sorry that I couldn't be there with you all when Momma passed away ^BI was on the road and when they came and told me it was just too late ^F#I drove by the grave to see her, boy, that really is a pretty stone ^BI'm glad that Fred and Jan are here, ^C#it's better than you being here ^F#alone ^F#Well I knew you's gonna ask me who the lady is that's sleeping in the car ^BThat's just a girl who works for me and, man, she plays a pretty mean guitar ^F#We worked in San Antone last night, she didn't even have the time to dress ^BShe drove me down from Nashville and to ^C#tell the truth I guess she needs the ^F#rest ^F#Well, Dad, I gotta go, we got a dance to work in Cartersville tonight ^BLet me take your number down, I'll call you, and I promise you I'll write ^F#Now you be good and don't be chasin' all those pretty women that you know ^BAnd by the way if you see Barbara ^C#Walker tell her that I said "^F#Hello."