Far from the home I love
Am C
F E E7
1. How can I hope to make you understand why I do what I do ?
Am C Dm E A
Why I must travel to a distant
land, far from the home I love ?
A C#m Bm E E7
Once I was happily content to
be as I was, where I was,
Am C#m Bm E A
close
to the people who are close to me, here in the home I love.
Bm E A
Who could see that a man would
come
Bm C#m
who
would change the shape of my dreams ?
D C#m Bm A
Helpless, now, I stand with
him,
Bm C#m D E7
watching
older dreams grow dim.
Am C
F
E
E7
2. Oh, what a melancholy choice this is, wanting home, wanting him,
Am C Dm
E A
closing
my heart to every hope but his, leaving the home I love.
A C#m Bm E
There where my heart has
settled long ago, I must go, I must go,
Am C F E
Am
who
could imagine I'd be wand'ring so far from the home I
love -
C7 Dm E
Am
yet,
there with my love, I'm home.
+ Am - C - Dm
- E - Am
(orig.=no capo; midi=capo 3rd) (J. Bock / S. Harnick)