Home Is The Welcoming Sound

Home Is The Welcoming Sound
by Jon Cobert & Tom Chapin
© 2005 Red Wagon Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

When the winter wind’s calling,
When snow is a-falling
And your cold feet are dragging the ground.
When you’re stuck in the storm, looking for warm,
Home is the welcoming sound.

When the summer sun’s blaze
Puts your mind in a haze
And you feel like you’re coming unwound,
When you run helter-skelter, looking for shelter,
Home is the welcoming sound.
Cool in the summer, warm in the winter,
Sheltering all the year ’round.
Wherever I ramble, wherever I roam,
Home is the welcoming sound.

When your friends are all taken,
You’re feeling forsaken,
When your smile has turned into a frown.
When it seems like your poor heart is coming apart,
Home is the welcoming sound.
Cool in the summer, warm in the winter,
Sheltering all the year ’round.
Wherever I ramble, wherever I roam,
Home is the welcoming sound.

There are family and friends standing by you,
Though it seems like you’re out on your own.
Whoever you are, wherever you go,
You are not alone.

I’m a daddy who travels, who works on the road,
And it seems like I’m always outbound.
But though we’re apart, deep down in my heart,
Home is the welcoming sound.
Cool in the summer, warm in the winter,
Sheltering all the year ’round.
Wherever I ramble, wherever I roam,
Home is the welcoming sound.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Some Assembly Required CD.

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