Lyrics and translation Tom T. Hall - Homecoming - Single Version

I guess I should've written, dad

Наверное, мне следовало написать, Папа.

To let you know that I was coming home

Чтобы ты знала что я возвращаюсь домой

I've been gone so many years

Меня не было так много лет

I didn't realize you had a phone

Я не знал что у тебя есть телефон

I saw your cattle coming in,

Я видел, как заходил твой скот,

Boy they're looking mighty fat and slick

Парень, он выглядит очень жирным и скользким.

I saw fred at the service station

Я видел Фреда на станции техобслуживания.

Told me that his wife is awful sick

Он сказал мне, что его жена ужасно больна.

You heard my record on the radio

Вы слышали мою запись по радио

Oh, well it's just another song

О, это просто еще одна песня.

But I've got a hit recorded

Но у меня записан хит.

And it'll be out on the market 'fore too long

И он будет на рынке слишком долго.

I got this ring in mexico

Я купил это кольцо в Мексике.

No, it didn't cost me quite a bunch

Нет, это не стоило мне больших денег.

When you're in the business that I'm in

Когда ты занимаешься тем же делом, что и я.

The people call it puttin' up a front

Люди называют это выставлением напоказ.

I know I've lost a little weight

Я знаю, что немного похудела.

I guess I am looking kind of pale

Наверное, я выгляжу немного бледным.

If you didn't know me better, dad

Если бы ты не знал меня лучше, папа ...

You'd think that I'd just gotten out of jail

Можно подумать, я только что вышел из тюрьмы.

No, we don't ever call them beer joints

Нет, мы никогда не называем их пивными.

Night clubs...

Ночные клубы...

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Writer(s): Tom T. Hall

Album

Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher

date of release

14-11-1995

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2 Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
3 Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
4 Magnificent Music Machine
5 Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
6 The Hitchhiker
7 I Want To See The Parade
8 Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
9 Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
10 America The Ugly
11 Pamela Brown
12 Subdivision Blues
13 Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)
14 I'm Forty Now
15 I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
16 The Son Of Clayton Delaney
17 More About John Henry - Single Version
18 I Flew Over Our House Last Night - Single Version
19 The Monkey That Became President - Single Version
20 Salute To A Switchblade - Single Version
21 Flat-Footin' It - Single Version
22 Fox On The Run - Single Version
23 Strawberry Farms - Single Version
24 Watergate Blues - Single Version
25 Spokane Motel Blues - Single Version
26 Down At The Mall - Single Version
27 Me And Jesus - Single Version
28 Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet) - Single Version
29 The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Single Version
30 A Week In A Country Jail - Single Version
31 Ballad Of Forty Dollars - Single Version
32 Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Single Version
33 The Old Side Of Town
34 I Can't Dance
35 A Million Miles To The City
36 Give Her My Best - 1995 Box Set Version
37 Levi Jones - 1995 Box Set Version
38 That Song Is Driving Me Crazy - Single Version
39 I Like Beer - Single Version
40 That's How I Got To Memphis
41 Deal - Single Version
42 Shoeshine Man
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44 Homecoming - Single Version
45 100 Children - Single Version
46 I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew - Single Version
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