Home From The Forest chords by Gordon Lightfoot

Chords with lyrics

Gordon Lightfoot - Home From The Forest




CAPO: 2nd Fret



INTRO:: G+G  C majorC

VERSE 1::
                     FF      C majorC
Oh, the neon lights were flashing and the icy wind did blow
     ~    A minorAm          FF         C majorC
The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow
  FF         C majorC            A minorAm        E7E7
His eyes were red, his hopes were dead and the wine was running low
    FF      G+G
And the old man came home
     C majorC
From the forest

VERSE 2::
                   FF        C majorC
His tears fell on the sidewalk as he stumbled in the street
    ~   A minorAm          FF         C majorC
A augmentedA dozen faces stopped to stare, but no one stopped to speak
    FF      C majorC        A minorAm       E7E7
For his castle was a hallway and the bottle was his friend
    FF        G+G
And the old man stumbled in
     C majorC
From the forest


VERSE 3::
                 FF        C majorC
Up a dark and dingy staircase the old man made his way
      ~   A minorAm       FF       C majorC
His ragged coat around him, as upon his cot he lay
    FF        C majorC        A minorAm      E7E7
And he wondered how it happened that he ended up this way
    FF      G+G
Getting lost like a fool
    C majorC
In the forest

VERSE 4::
                FF      C majorC
And as he lay there sleeping a vision did appear
     ~   A minorAm     FF       C majorC
Upon his mantle shining, a face of one so dear
    FF        C majorC        A minorAm       E7E7
Who had loved him in the springtime of a long forgotten year
     FF        G+G
When the wildflowers did bloom
    C majorC
In the forest


VERSE 5::
                     FF         C majorC
She touched his grizzled fingers and she called him by his name
      ~     A minorAm       FF         C majorC
And then he heard the joyful sound of children at their games
   FF       C majorC      A minorAm       E7E7
In an old house on a hillside, in some forgotten town
     FF     G+G
Where the river runs down
     C majorC    G+G  FF  C majorC
From the forest


VERSE 6::
                   FF        C majorC
With a mighty roar the big jet soars above the canyon streets
        ~    A minorAm          FF     C majorC
And the con men con, but life goes on, for the city never sleeps
     FF       C majorC      A minorAm        E7E7
And to an old forgotten soldier, the dawn will come no more
N.C.  FF        G+G
For the old man has come home
     C majorC    G+G C majorC