Come Home

By Pierce Pettis

Transcribed by Joe Higgins

This is rough crd file of this song that I figured out for someone who

was looking for it. I figured as long as I was e mailing it to him I may as

well send a copy to OLGA. Pierce does this song on his fine disc, "While the

Serpent Lies Sleeping." He uses a very controllded strum techniqu that

centers on the middle strings

Capo 2

Verses follow a 2 measure pattern /D-Em7/C -G/

D: XX023X Em7: XX203X C: X3201X

G: X2003X

I remember how you loved this holy city in the spring

Fresh flowers in the market,

Children running in the street

But it's changed so much I don't think you would

recognize a thing

Now it's just a red light district an international disgrace

Refrain:

G: 320033 Dsus: XX0233 C add D: X30033

Come home......come home

You've been gone so long

Come home

Verse 2:

Papers and petitions have been piling at the door

nailed to the door

Theives break in at night they say you want be back no more

Your wife seems so lethargic, so scattered and so frail

And the child who's never known you

just stands at the wall and wails

Refrain

The following section is done with two guitars. One plays the chords

underneath while the second drones on: XXX033 pretty

much throughout:

Yellow ribbons 'round the olive trees you planted in the

park

 

Only the brave or the foolish ever walk there after dark

All around the world a table's set and there's an

empty place

Still we go through the motions breaking bread

and saying grace

But the ones you left to run your business run it right into

the ground

Each one a law into himself leading followers around

And in the babble of the street amid the jostling of the crowd

On every side like helpless sheep

It makes me want to cry out loud

Refrain