Key: Db major
Intro 1
C
Verse 1
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He was Sicilian born,
a fisherman's son,
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C
came over twenty -three
Worked like a dog for a couple of years
G
Sent for his family
F
Well he worked on the docks
C
And he worked on the railways
Dm
C
He worked till his back was gone
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C
F
Bought a semi -detached
C
in Er skineville
Dm
G
C
Moved in and paved the lawn
Well his three boys grew married
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C
Young blonde and blue -eyed girls
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C
An d soon enough
there were grandkids come
G
To look in on his world
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C
And they were fair and blue -eyed too
Dm
And to him they all looked the same
C
F
C
F
If Sicilian blood flowed
C
through their lives
Dm
G
C
You'd only know by their last name
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C
And he never talked in his native tongue
G
C
And he never talked about going home
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C
And he told me once the reason why
G
He said, home's not
where you're born
Home is where a man's
C
prepared to die
He outlived his wife Maria,
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C
she died in eighty -two
For a long time after,
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Em
G
he was lost for what to do
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C
He'd sit alone at the window
Dm
and doze the days away
C
F
C
So I didn't see him much anymore
Dm
G
C
Unless he happened to wave
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C
F
C
Still he never talked in his native tongue
G
C
And he never talked about go ing home
F
C
And he told me once the reason why
G
He said, home's not
where you're born
Home is where a man is prepared
C
F
C
to die
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C
Well, I went up north
on a two -week spell
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C
About a month ago
And to my surprise
When I came home
G
I found his place had sold
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C
I called the other neighbors
Dm
C
To find out where he had gone
F
They said he packed up
Em
C
And just went back
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C
To wherever he came from
Dm
C
F
An d he never talked
C
in his native tongue
G
C
And he never talked about going home
F
C
And he told me once the reason why
G
He said, home's not where
you're born
Home's not where you're born
Home is where a man's
C
prepared to die
F
C
And he never talked in his native tongue
G
C
And he never talked about going home
F
C
And he told me once the reason why
G
He said, home's not
where you're born
Home is where a man is prepared to die
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