Beautiful song, but there are too many errors in this transcription. Here's a correct version:
Almost home
When I missed the bottom stair
You were braiding your gray hair
It had grown so long
Since I'd been gone
And the perfect girls
By the pool, they would protest
The cross around their necks
But our sons were overseas
And we all know 'bout the hive and the honey bees
Almost home
With an olive branch and a dove
You were beating on a Persian rug
With your bible and your wedding band
Both hidden on a TV stand
And the cruel wind blew
Every city father fell
Off the county carousel
While the dogs were eating snow
All our sons had sunk in a trunk
of Noah's clothes
Almost home
We got lost on our new street
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep
So the dogs all went unfed
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed
And the cops couldn't care
When that crackhead built a boat
And said, "Please, before I go,
May our only honored bone
Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"
Beautiful song, but there are too many errors in this transcription. Here's a correct version:
Almost home When I missed the bottom stair You were braiding your gray hair It had grown so long Since I'd been gone
And the perfect girls By the pool, they would protest The cross around their necks But our sons were overseas And we all know 'bout the hive and the honey bees
Almost home With an olive branch and a dove You were beating on a Persian rug With your bible and your wedding band Both hidden on a TV stand
And the cruel wind blew Every city father fell Off the county carousel While the dogs were eating snow All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes
Almost home We got lost on our new street While your grieving girls all died in their sleep So the dogs all went unfed A great dream of bones all piled on the bed
And the cops couldn't care When that crackhead built a boat And said, "Please, before I go, May our only honored bone Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"
I think the last line but 1 is wrong
I think the last line but 1 is wrong
It scans better and make much more sense as:
It scans better and make much more sense as:
"May our only honored <i>bond</i> Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"
"May our only honored <i>bond</i> Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"