The only thing
I see ahead
Is just the heat arisin'
off the road
The rainbows
I've been chasin'
keep on fadin'
before I find my pot of gold
And more and more
I'm thinkin'
That the only treasures
that I'll ever know
Are long ago and far behind
Wrapped up in
my memories of home
Home was a swimmin' hole
And a fishin' pole
And the feel of a mighty road
between my toes
Home was a back porch swing
Where I would sit
And mom would sing
Amazing Grace
While she hung out the clothes
Home was an easy chair
with my daddy there
And the smell of
Sunday supper on the stove
My footsteps carry me away
But in my mind
I'm always goin' home
Now the miles
I've put behind me
came as hard
as the miles that lay ahead
And it's way too late to listen
to the words of wisdom
that my daddy said
The straight and narrow
path he showed me
turned into a thousand
winding roads
My footsteps carry me away
But in my mind
I'm always goin' home
Home was a swimmin' hole
And a fishin' pole
And the feel of a mighty road
between my toes
Home was a back porch swing
Where I would sit
And mom would sing
Amazing Grace
While she hung out the clothes
Home was an easy chair
with my daddy there
And the smell of
Sunday supper on the stove
My footsteps carry me away
But in my mind
I'm always goin' home
The straight and narrow
path he showed me
turned into a thousand
winding roads
My footsteps carry me away
But in my mind
I'm always goin' home