Home From The Forest chords by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot - Home From The Forest





CAPO: 2nd Fret




INTRO:: G  C

VERSE 1::
                     F      C
Oh, the neon lights were flashing and the icy wind did blow
     ~    Am          F         C
The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow
  F         C            Am        E7
His eyes were red, his hopes were dead and the wine was running low
    F      G
And the old man came home
     C
From the forest

VERSE 2::
                   F        C
His tears fell on the sidewalk as he stumbled in the street
    ~   Am          F         C
A dozen faces stopped to stare, but no one stopped to speak
    F      C        Am       E7
For his castle was a hallway and the bottle was his friend
    F        G
And the old man stumbled in
     C
From the forest


VERSE 3::
                 F        C
Up a dark and dingy staircase the old man made his way
      ~   Am       F       C
His ragged coat around him, as upon his cot he lay
    F        C        Am      E7
And he wondered how it happened that he ended up this way
    F      G
Getting lost like a fool
    C
In the forest


VERSE 4::
                F      C
And as he lay there sleeping a vision did appear
     ~   Am     F       C
Upon his mantle shining, a face of one so dear
    F        C        Am       E7
Who had loved him in the springtime of a long forgotten year
     F        G
When the wildflowers did bloom
    C
In the forest


VERSE 5::
                     F         C
She touched his grizzled fingers and she called him by his name
      ~     Am       F         C
And then he heard the joyful sound of children at their games
   F       C      Am       E7
In an old house on a hillside, in some forgotten town
     F     G
Where the river runs down
     C    G  F  C
From the forest


VERSE 6::
                   F        C
With a mighty roar the big jet soars above the canyon streets
        ~    Am          F     C
And the con men con, but life goes on, for the city never sleeps
     F       C      Am        E7
And to an old forgotten soldier, the dawn will come no more
N.C.  F        G
For the old man has come home
     C    G C