{"id":231,"date":"2020-04-05T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=231"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:04:58","slug":"coming-home-by-steve-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Coming Home .  by Steve Clark ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Put a light in the window,  your brother\u2019s coming home<br>Set a meal on the table, your brother\u2019s coming home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019ll be tired and weary after all these years alone  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he\u2019s coming home,  your brother\u2019s coming home<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Chorus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coming home to a place they\u2019ve never been<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coming home to a land they\u2019ve never seen&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coming home to a family they have never known<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All Jock Tamson&#8217;s bairns. Are coming home<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the chain from the door<br>\nYour sister\u2019s coming home<br>\nOpen wide your arms<br>\nYour sister\u2019s coming home<br>\nDon\u2019t leave her standing there<br>\nAfter all the pain she\u2019s known<br>\nShe\u2019s coming home,<br>\nYour sister\u2019s coming home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s been angry and afraid<br>\nYour father&#8217;s coming home<br>\nHe&#8217;s been hounded and betrayed<br>\nYour father&#8217;s coming home<br>\nAnd with every act of kindness<br>\nA seed of hope is sown<br>\nHe&#8217;s coming home. <br>\nYour father&#8217;s coming home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bring her in from the cold<br> Your mother&#8217;s coming home<br> Sit her down by the fire<br> Your mother&#8217;s coming home<br> Make her warm, make her welcome <br> Before the chance is gone<br> She&#8217;s coming home, your mother&#8217;s coming home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From New Zealand and Australia <br> Your family&#8217;s coming home<br> And from Canada and America<br> Your family&#8217;s coming home<br> To hearth and the Homeland<br> That they have never known<br> They&#8217;re coming home, <br> Your family&#8217;s coming home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Last verse changed from original with writers blessing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put a light in the window, your brother\u2019s coming homeSet a meal on the table, your brother\u2019s coming home He\u2019ll be tired and weary after all these years alone he\u2019s coming home, your brother\u2019s coming home Chorus Coming home to a place they\u2019ve never been Coming home to a land they\u2019ve never seen&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coming Home .  by Steve Clark .&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}