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Stanley Ralph A Distant Land To Roam Songs Of The Carter Family

home For a distant land to roam Now I wandered far away From my home I've gone astray Now I'm coming, coming home Never more from thee to roam

me Oh, you told me once, dear, that you loved me And you said that we never would part But a link in the chain has been broken Leavin me with a sad

longing for home My heart is longing for home Longing for home, longing for home My heart is longing for home How sweet will be the time With loved ones forever to roam

On a hill lone and gray In a land far away In a country beyond the blue sea Where beneath that far sky Went a man for to die For the world and for you

do blow My own true love got drownded in the deep And the ship never got to the shore Oh, the first on the deck was a porter of the ship And a rough

I hear a low faint voice that says Papa and mama's dead And it comes from the poor orphan child That must be clothed and fed And it comes from the

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song It takes a worried man to sing a worried song It takes a worried man to sing a worried song I'm worried