Home Thoughts

"Home Thoughts" is the first song of Ruth Crawford Seeger's cycle Five Songs, which sets the text of Carl Sandburg.

Date: 1929Composer: Ruth Crawford SeegerText: Carl SandburgSong Collection: Five Songs

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Home Thoughts
by Carl Sandburg

The sea rocks have a green moss.
The pine rocks have red berries.
I have memories of you.

Speak to me of how you miss me.
Tell me the hours go long and slow.

Speak to me of the drag on your heart,
The iron drag of the long days.

I know hours empty as a beggar’s tin cup on a rainy day, empty as a soldier’s sleeve with an arm lost.

Speak to me …

Sheet Music

Five Songs

Composer(s): Ruth Crawford Seeger

Song(s): 1. Home Thoughts
2. White Moon
3. Joy
4. Loam
5. Sunsets

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