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