This song made me cry the first time I heard it, and several times after. I think because it illustrates the distance that inevitably comes between us and the people we love. I may not be a musician like the character in the song, but being busy and growing up drove me away from my grandparents; the people who raised me.
It made me cry the first time I heard it, too. And sometimes it still does. I remember where I was and who I was with when I first heard it. It had a profound effect on me.
@@RemingtonRidersMusic that's the great thing about music, the way a song binds to a memory. When you can remember the exact time and place you were when you first heard it and what was going on in your life at that time. It's pretty incredible.
dont always blame yourself,sometimes we have to do things for ourselves or our family that hurts but we have to make choices,its life,tom wrote about and understood this.Be happy but remember
This is a really good post/comment. Listening to this song always takes me down a path similar to what you describe. My Dad was a farmer, and he was not at all into this type of music, but I think the lyrics of this song would have really touched him. I was too busy with my life to talk to my Dad much of the time. A bad fall helped contribute to later dementia, and missed opportunities are not always afforded to us to be corrected.
This is my favorite TTH song. It's so simple and so deep at the same time... totally paints a picture of a lifestyle. Rest in peace, Mr. Hall, you will be missed.
Makes me think of going to visit my wife’s grandparents in a tiny Missouri town. They’re gone now but there were no finer people. They gave us some beautiful memories. Simple. But beautiful.
Tom T was my brother's favorite singer and this was his favorite song. I sat at the hospital with him when he had cancer. I asked which Tom T song he liked the best, he said I guess it would have to be the homecoming. I said sing it for me m he was a good singer, He sung it ,every word. He died a few weeks later at age 55.
I've been listening to Tom T. Hall music since around 1967 or so. Took him for granted and thought he would be around forever. Thank God for youtube and videos like this one.
That's my Grandma at the end of the song when he says if you see Barbara Walker tell I said hello. She used to work at the western club on Cedar Creek Lake. She's 80+ now.
LOST MY DAD LAST YEAR AND THIS SONG REALLY HITS HOME SINCE HE WAS A FARMER. FUNNY I NEVER HEARD THIS SONG TIL HE PASSED BUT IT HAS BECOME MY FAVORITE, THANKS FOR SHARING GOOD MUSIC!
@GN i dont know if this means anything to you but i think its a sign from your Dad. i found tom t hall when my grandpa passed away and from what i was told tom t hall was his favorite
I grew up hearing Tom T. Hall in my dad's shop when I was a kid in the 70s and loved his music. I spent 21 years in the military and this song reminds me of my visits with my dad when I come home to NC on leave. I miss my dad and The Ol' Storyteller a bunch.
To me this is one of the greatest country songs ever......he is a master of story telling.......just goes to show that you don't need a 40 piece band and all the bells and whistles to make a great song.....simple is always best.....just my humble thoughts....
My dad is 75 years old. He often thinks of old songs and every week or two when I drive out to see him and my mother he'll ask me " oh..can you bring this sing up on your phone?" Well the other day he asked for this song. I'd heard mant of TTH's songs over the decades and bought several of them. Wow, this song is just incredible. I thought "Clayton Delaney" as his best song...until I played this one for him. Tom T. Hall is indeed "The" story teller!
This song hits no matter what age. I’m 26 but this made me think about the ones I love/loved, and how easy it is to lose touch with them because “life happens”. Even though it’s a terribly sad song, I appreciate the hell out of it for making me think critically about how I should cherish the one’s I still have around
I choke up every time I hear this. Reminds me so much of the conversations I had with my dad after my mom died. I had moved away and was able to see him once every five or six weeks. He just didn’t understand.
It's the 24th of August, and it's just another night here in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I saw an article on the BBC that Charlie Watts, of the Rolling Stones, died. I clicked on the article and I saw where it mentioned that we lost two great musicians in one week. Curious, I looked to see who the other one was - it was Tom. I immediately thought of my youth and the small town were I was raised in Arkansas. I remembered my father playing Tom T. Hall songs on his acoustic guitar. He would sing the following songs over and over again: "That's How I Got To Memphis", "Homecoming", "I Miss A Lot Of Trains", & "Margie's At Lincoln Park Inn." I have lived in Argentina for many years now, and I'm sure I'll put my foot in the grave here - but until I do, I will always think back to those days in Berrvyille, Arkansas, sitting on a chair by my father's side, listening to him belt out one of Tom's songs. I'll miss him (and my father) each time I hear one of Tom's songs.
Anyone else here because of his passing away today? This song here was the first song I heard of Tom's....When I was 15 years old I went to live with my dad, after not seeing him since I was 6 years old when my parents split...It was in 2001, and I got my first computer, well I downloaded Napster and showed my dad how to get free music... This was the first song he had me download.. It always stuck with me...
I have always liked Tom T Hall since the 1970's, but the older I get the more I appreciate his talent . His lyrics are always so simple yet descriptive and every song seems to tell a story that I lived in my life. What a treasure he is and so down to earth and ordinary, could be anyone of the thousands of men I have passed by somewhere in my life. Thanks lincolncadillac for putting this up and thanks to Tom for being who you are and sharing your talent with us! People like Tom are so rare in our lifetimes. Please excuse the edit but I, temporarily, have done a huge injustice to Mr. Hall by not mentioning he is the "Best Story Teller in the world". A worthy title and fact that should never be excluded from any description of this great and multi-talented musician. Also at this point (as long as I am dribbling on), I would also like to state, that Mr. Hall appears at the top of the list, on my all-time, "top 10 list of people I wished I had for neighbors," just above Bob Newhart. I'm not sure why, just thought that trivial bit of information may come in handy somehow, someday, lol.
I can close my eyes and hear my daddy singing this song. He was no Tom T. Hall but he was pretty damn good. He had a 1952 J45 that he bought in the summer of 53 for 5 bucks... Long story. Anyway, I have the old guitar now and I can play it, but not like the old man could.
This is the ring tone for my dad... "I guess I should have written Dad, to let you know that I was coming home..." Have two dogs... their names are Fred and Jan.
I left home when I was 15 years of age. It was a strange time, my father and I were never particularly close. But in 1979 when I first heard this song, everything seemed to be all right.
You can picture the story unfolding in your mind as it goes along. Like the many great songs of the era Phantom 309 is another example of a story I can see happening to a lone hitchhiker on a cold rainy night.
If you look the definition of country up in websters it will show Tom t hall has the greatest country singer songwriter of all time he is king of country
Toms mother and fathers grave are about 100’ from my fathers and they are right behind my grandparents I can see there headstone from my back door! In olive hill my toms hometown and also mine!
The ideology of the common man will always appeal to the loving people! Go see your parents ... whether living or deceased! It's just an honorable thing to do! Peace! \m/\m/
My dad introduced me to "Tom T" about 1975, when I was 10 years old. He's my favorite country music artist. There'll never be another one like the "Storyteller." The first album I ever purchased, at age 10, was "In Search of a Song." I only wish I had seen this legend perform live....just once. I lost dad in 2005, but I can still hear him singing Tom T. Hall in my mind.
It makes me sad and think at the same time I've driven away from my parents so much and I can't imagine a life without my dad he made me love classic cars and classic music love you guys
I left the farm ln michigan to join a rock band in north dakota . Came back home 3 years later and all i done and seen , my dad was not so much impresed and talked to me just like this song
I reckon now The Storyteller has had his Homecoming as he winged his way to Heaven. This was my grandparents favorite Tom T song, I guess now both Grandpa and Grandma get to hear Tom sing it to them live in Heaven.
This and the hitchhiker are two of my favorite Tom T songs. I’m a way this one reminds me of my days in the Marine Corps. Not talking or seeing my old man to much but maybe once a year for many years. Being away and people passing away and not able to come. But just a great great song
One of the greatest songs ever...BY someone who could have a pretty accurate claim on being the greatest country singer ever.
It’s a done deal he is the greatest
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Songwriter yes. But singer has to be GJ.
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This song made me cry the first time I heard it, and several times after. I think because it illustrates the distance that inevitably comes between us and the people we love. I may not be a musician like the character in the song, but being busy and growing up drove me away from my grandparents; the people who raised me.
It made me cry the first time I heard it, too. And sometimes it still does. I remember where I was and who I was with when I first heard it. It had a profound effect on me.
@@RemingtonRidersMusic that's the great thing about music, the way a song binds to a memory. When you can remember the exact time and place you were when you first heard it and what was going on in your life at that time. It's pretty incredible.
dont always blame yourself,sometimes we have to do things for ourselves or our family that hurts but we have to make choices,its life,tom wrote about and understood this.Be happy but remember
This is a really good post/comment. Listening to this song always takes me down a path similar to what you describe. My Dad was a farmer, and he was not at all into this type of music, but I think the lyrics of this song would have really touched him. I was too busy with my life to talk to my Dad much of the time. A bad fall helped contribute to later dementia, and missed opportunities are not always afforded to us to be corrected.
This was me when I lived in the States. I would not call for months and then they would call me wondering if I was still around.
I'm 67 now ,I still have the memories of my father and coming home to this song.God bless the story teller,thank you
They don't have songs like this anymore.
This is my favorite TTH song. It's so simple and so deep at the same time... totally paints a picture of a lifestyle. Rest in peace, Mr. Hall, you will be missed.
Too hard to pick a Tom T. favorite song. Too many songs. But this one is absolutely on the list.
Today it is my favoright. But I have a lust for watermelon wine
This dude is so underrated great songwriter
Makes me think of going to visit my wife’s grandparents in a tiny Missouri town. They’re gone now but there were no finer people. They gave us some beautiful memories. Simple. But beautiful.
I didn't learn until recently about the next to last line. My maiden name is Barbara Walker.
Hi Barbara. Tom says hello.
Tom T was my brother's favorite singer and this was his favorite song. I sat at the hospital with him when he had cancer. I asked which Tom T song he liked the best, he said I guess it would have to be the homecoming. I said sing it for me m he was a good singer, He sung it ,every word. He died a few weeks later at age 55.
So sorry to hear about your brother passing, I lost my brother at 57, he died from the use of drugs unfortunately. We both use to love country music.
only reason i brought those flowers were for my girlfriend sam definintly not for my mother
i wore it out at 17
he is alive and well
I'm sorry for your loss.
I've been listening to Tom T. Hall music since around 1967 or so. Took him for granted and thought he would be around forever. Thank God for youtube and videos like this one.
Especially since so many of his LP's haven't been reissued as CD's yet...
RIP to one of the finest chroniclers of the American experience, a true poet
His music could always touch some part of your psyche that no one else could.
Genius.
That's my Grandma at the end of the song when he says if you see Barbara Walker tell I said hello. She used to work at the western club on Cedar Creek Lake. She's 80+ now.
I have always wondered who b walker was
LOST MY DAD LAST YEAR AND THIS SONG REALLY HITS HOME SINCE HE WAS A FARMER. FUNNY I NEVER HEARD THIS SONG TIL HE PASSED BUT IT
HAS BECOME MY FAVORITE, THANKS FOR SHARING GOOD MUSIC!
@GN i dont know if this means anything to you but i think its a sign from your Dad. i found tom t hall when my grandpa passed away and from what i was told tom t hall was his favorite
One of the all-time great songwriters. You are missed, Tom T. RIP.
I grew up hearing Tom T. Hall in my dad's shop when I was a kid in the 70s and loved his music. I spent 21 years in the military and this song reminds me of my visits with my dad when I come home to NC on leave. I miss my dad and The Ol' Storyteller a bunch.
Yes, he was one of the greatest. I have to agree with you there. I grew up with him too.❤
To me this is one of the greatest country songs ever......he is a master of story telling.......just goes to show that you don't need a 40 piece band and all the bells and whistles to make a great song.....simple is always best.....just my humble thoughts....
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Agreed
The STORYTELLERS storyteller
RIP Tom T Hall. The music world will miss you.
THIS IS A TRUE SAD BUT THE WORDS ARE SO SO TRUE TOM T HAD A GREAT VOICE HE DESERVED MORE RECOGITION IN THE MUSIC WORLD
SPOT ON BARARA
SPOT ON BARBARA RAY TWELVE STRINGS U.K
He is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Deservedly so.
One of the most underated singers. What a beautiful song!!! Reminds me so much of pulling up in Mamaw's holler in Kentucky. Precious memories!!!!!
Hi Pamela
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU PAMELA ,RAY TWELVE STRINGS UK
Chokes me up every time.
yes.
Yes
Thank you Tom T Hall for all your beautiful songs... Loved them all.. Rest in peace.
A great Country Singer that tells a story of respect and love. Sorely missed. RIP Tommie. You will never be forgotten.
My dad is 75 years old. He often thinks of old songs and every week or two when I drive out to see him and my mother he'll ask me " oh..can you bring this sing up on your phone?" Well the other day he asked for this song. I'd heard mant of TTH's songs over the decades and bought several of them. Wow, this song is just incredible. I thought "Clayton Delaney" as his best song...until I played this one for him. Tom T. Hall is indeed "The" story teller!
This song hits no matter what age. I’m 26 but this made me think about the ones I love/loved, and how easy it is to lose touch with them because “life happens”. Even though it’s a terribly sad song, I appreciate the hell out of it for making me think critically about how I should cherish the one’s I still have around
Loved everything Tom T did. But this may be my favorite.
this is my FAVORITE....hits to close to home..
Michael Myers ya mike my fav
@@intimidator6969 i love this song
I don't have enough fingers to count his best....
A hit song without a chorus? Just shows how great a story/song it is
It can be done. Tom T, and C. W. McCall. Some of C W's songs don't have a chorus.
Doesn't this say it all for us Son's who left town
Jeffrey Hancock denverbroncos
Its the nail on the head
This is just a simple glimpse into the life, we all, got t' experience ...
Like my dad said to me.."you'll learn"
I choke up every time I hear this. Reminds me so much of the conversations I had with my dad after my mom died. I had moved away and was able to see him once every five or six weeks. He just didn’t understand.
Listen to this one almost daily. Not sure why......It does something to my soul. Love TTH
Late 60s and all of the 70s is the best country music
Maybe the only song that makes me choke up, on the verge of tears, EVERY TIME. And I ain't no sissy.
Me too..
My favorite 😪😪😪 Rest in peace sweet gentle man
It's the 24th of August, and it's just another night here in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I saw an article on the BBC that Charlie Watts, of the Rolling Stones, died. I clicked on the article and I saw where it mentioned that we lost two great musicians in one week. Curious, I looked to see who the other one was - it was Tom. I immediately thought of my youth and the small town were I was raised in Arkansas. I remembered my father playing Tom T. Hall songs on his acoustic guitar. He would sing the following songs over and over again: "That's How I Got To Memphis", "Homecoming", "I Miss A Lot Of Trains", & "Margie's At Lincoln Park Inn." I have lived in Argentina for many years now, and I'm sure I'll put my foot in the grave here - but until I do, I will always think back to those days in Berrvyille, Arkansas, sitting on a chair by my father's side, listening to him belt out one of Tom's songs. I'll miss him (and my father) each time I hear one of Tom's songs.
Anyone else here because of his passing away today? This song here was the first song I heard of Tom's....When I was 15 years old I went to live with my dad, after not seeing him since I was 6 years old when my parents split...It was in 2001, and I got my first computer, well I downloaded Napster and showed my dad how to get free music... This was the first song he had me download.. It always stuck with me...
Tom T Hall is undoubtedly the best storyteller of our time, and perhaps this is my favorite song of his entire catalog.
I have always liked Tom T Hall since the 1970's, but the older I get the more I appreciate his talent . His lyrics are always so simple yet descriptive and every song seems to tell a story that I lived in my life. What a treasure he is and so down to earth and ordinary, could be anyone of the thousands of men I have passed by somewhere in my life. Thanks lincolncadillac for putting this up and thanks to Tom for being who you are and sharing your talent with us! People like Tom are so rare in our lifetimes.
Please excuse the edit but I, temporarily, have done a huge injustice to Mr. Hall by not mentioning he is the "Best Story Teller in the world". A worthy title and fact that should never be excluded from any description of this great and multi-talented musician.
Also at this point (as long as I am dribbling on), I would also like to state, that Mr. Hall appears at the top of the list, on my all-time, "top 10 list of people I wished I had for neighbors," just above Bob Newhart. I'm not sure why, just thought that trivial bit of information may come in handy somehow, someday, lol.
Bob Newhart and Tom T are like chalk and cheese.
I can close my eyes and hear my daddy singing this song. He was no Tom T. Hall but he was pretty damn good. He had a 1952 J45 that he bought in the summer of 53 for 5 bucks... Long story. Anyway, I have the old guitar now and I can play it, but not like the old man could.
Got a 56 model....Is your finish cracked up like they all do? Gives it character.
Man, Tom T. takes you home doesn't he?
It's so important to keep in touch with your "peeps"! A loving family and close friends are the biggest blessings in life.
This is my favorite Tom t Hall song and that's saying something with the catalog he's put together
Man what a great song!
The greatest most talented song writer and singer of all time so many great songs hidden gems and still alive and well the one and only TOM T HALL
What a terrific song. Love playing it over and over. Thanks, Tom. Veterans for Trump 2020
Tom T Hall's best song
Goodbye, Dad. Much love & see you soon.
Love this song.... kinda reminds me how my life kinda went side ways for a bit.... and forgot and neglected my parents for a time....
I think we all have neglected our parents from time to time.
How true..
Country songs have a way of hitting home. I'm reminded a little town in Arkansas where Mom and Dad got their start........
This is the ring tone for my dad... "I guess I should have written Dad, to let you know that I was coming home..." Have two dogs... their names are Fred and Jan.
I left home when I was 15 years of age.
It was a strange time, my father and I were never particularly close.
But in 1979 when I first heard this song, everything seemed to be all right.
Every word is just about perfect.
You can picture the story unfolding in your mind as it goes along. Like the many great songs of the era Phantom 309 is another example of a story I can see happening to a lone hitchhiker on a cold rainy night.
What a great song,we need more like this today
If you look the definition of country up in websters it will show Tom t hall has the greatest country singer songwriter of all time he is king of country
How nice it was to live the 60 70 80a when life was so real thank God
Joseph Teel I’m jealous. Today is sadly garbage I was meant for another time.
i found a hamilton skotch ice that you freeze in a freezer /icebox
from sckotch tape
Joseph Teel hey but at least living now gives me a chance to find music like this
3 years later and its got nothing but worse.
Fantastic song, haunting…
He was a helluva song writer
R.I.P. Mr. Hall😎
Toms mother and fathers grave are about 100’ from my fathers and they are right behind my grandparents I can see there headstone from my back door! In olive hill my toms hometown and also mine!
brings tears every time
i failed as a son im sorry dad ......love you always
i guess you sure havent not with me
The ideology of the common man will always appeal to the loving people! Go see your parents ... whether living or deceased! It's just an honorable thing to do! Peace! \m/\m/
Very powerful song.
The city of new orlens
Willie nelson
Very very powerful. Reminds me of my father and myself even if 0% of details are the same.
@@charlesmalone4335 thank you thats my good tape
REMITAL24 SO AWESOME.....
So simple but so powerfully done
Try listening to this song after coming home from a combat tour. You will never be the same again.
I know.
Tom T is the best ever, no one can top him
bob dean I agree!
this tom t hall
yes sir new ones from pawn shop on
No argument there........
My daddy's favorite singer. He was born in 1911 and had me at 57. I sure miss him these nearly 30 years he's been gone. I miss and love you Harper D.!
My dad introduced me to "Tom T" about 1975, when I was 10 years old. He's my favorite country music artist. There'll never be another one like the "Storyteller." The first album I ever purchased, at age 10, was "In Search of a Song." I only wish I had seen this legend perform live....just once. I lost dad in 2005, but I can still hear him singing Tom T. Hall in my mind.
This song just makes me want to cry.
You have to love the story teller. He not only wrote great song but also wrote children's books
Rest easy Tom
Excellent! Brings back memories of better tymes!
Very true..
Great music by the best story teller..Thanks to my folks for teaching me about Great singers.
It makes me sad and think at the same time I've driven away from my parents so much and I can't imagine a life without my dad he made me love classic cars and classic music love you guys
The Greatest!
RIP Tom T. ♥️
I cry everytime i hear it.
What do you admire most about Tom
Every time I hear this I have a hystical crying fit.The sing is so true and the accent and cadance is dead on as I am from Tom's part of the world.
One of "The storyteller's" best. Nice side show.
Looking up Tom Tom Hall on u tube brought me here.........Really
ein super song😙😅😁😁
RIP ole boy. You gave us a lot of good music…
My grandmother is Barbara Walker!! Miss you, Mimaw B. ❤
Sorry I missed you dad but I'm busy. Sad but true in the world today.
I have been Liston to tom for years we both have the same home town olive hill ky
What do you admire most about Tom
Hall's finest recording.
YEAH 🎸
Love this song
I left the farm ln michigan to join a rock band in north dakota . Came back home 3 years later and all i done and seen , my dad was not so much impresed and talked to me just like this song
I always loved this song I always sing and played it a lot
What do you admire most about Tom
@@Robertaabreutraer-hg6qk what's not to like???
@@Robertaabreutraer-hg6qk check out the song the letters, by Tom!!
@@tommywarren4633 lol
@@tommywarren4633 I'm Roberta from L.A, what about you
I true iconic singer. RIP
Love his songs,one of the best.
God bless you Tom
Thinking of you dad. Give mom a hug and a kiss for me.
Just one time, I'd love to sit down with Tom T and talk to him about this song. It's like a movie or a novel, in song.
RIP Tom T. Hall
Tom T Hall is America's storyteller.
such a poignant song from the Storyteller. RIP Mr. Hall. takes me back to my youth and my musical family.
I reckon now The Storyteller has had his Homecoming as he winged his way to Heaven. This was my grandparents favorite Tom T song, I guess now both Grandpa and Grandma get to hear Tom sing it to them live in Heaven.
My absolute favorite Tom T song
This and the hitchhiker are two of my favorite Tom T songs. I’m a way this one reminds me of my days in the Marine Corps. Not talking or seeing my old man to much but maybe once a year for many years. Being away and people passing away and not able to come. But just a great great song
This always makes me 😢. What a story teller.👍🏽.
A great story teller RIP sir
I love Tom t (GREAT)
One of tbe great songwriters of our time. Having been a picker over 30 years Homecoming really hits hom
lovely
Rest in heaven Tom your such a desent person.
Loved the rolling mills of Middletown...my home town
RIP to Albert and Howard, who introduced me to Tom T’s music.
Great Song!!
as a young man in the 60 s I was a fan to a talented man and always will be to the great Tom T