Hunters in the Snow

Hey Tommy I’m so far away

Up in these hills the tall trees sway

As hunters haul their fallen prey

And the snow falls on the lane

And I’m shivering once again

Somehow my friend I fell asleep

And tied my ankles in my sheets

Awoke so slow to snow so deep

No but I can’t run away

To my horses and my sleigh

Oh now I know I’m home

Yes now I know I’m home

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Oh Tommy tell me how you been

I heard you chipped your chiseled chin

And sea salt burned the broken skin

As the thick ice melted thin

Now we see the end begin

Well isn’t it so strange to think

How down in the ground our bones will sink

And fill the holes where blind moles blink

But we somehow find our way

To the palace in the clay

Oh now I know I’m home

Yes now I know I’m home

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The little girl’s a silhouette

Against the the evergreen she set

In summer when the ground was wet

Now the roots have found a hold

And they’ll protect her from the cold

Well I’m just city boy, my friend

But I know where the winter ends

It walks away as spring begins

And dies beneath the rain

Then this whole mess starts again

Oh now I know I’m home

Yes now I know I’m home