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Going Home

from Home by Fred Smith

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Underneath these northern stars, picking on a mate’s guitar
With a breeze from Kandahar blowing soft and warm
See my own is in its case, with the Movers just off base
On a pallet down the space ‘cause I’m going home
Fighting season got underway after harvest back in May
With attacks in Chahar Cheneh and Charmeston
But the Checkpoints all have held it wasn’t pretty but oh well
Let them do it all themselves and let’s go home
We don’t get out too much these days, with the base in ‘retrograde’
This trip hasn’t been the Guns of Navarone
Nothing like my first go around, out in the valleys round for round
40 good men in the ground now we’re going home
Now up on Kabul’s streets I hear, they’ve got billboards everywhere
Of the Lion of Panjshir or a 3G phone
Meanwhile down here in TK (Tarin Kowt), they’re banking on MK
And the fighting Fourth Brigade cause we’re going home
I don’t know how I am going to fit back home
Been out here now so long this is what I know
Brother, thanks for your ear, life is easier out here
It’s love and family I fear but I’m going home
Hear the Mullah sing his song, at the rising of the sun
Shares his love for everyone through a megaphone
By the time he sings again, I’ll be on that bird my friend
This war is at an end and I’m going home.

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from Home, released August 30, 2020

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Fred Smith Canberra, Australia

“Fred Smith is simply the best folk/country musician working in this country in 2020. Beyond writing some of the finest songs about Australians at war, he has created a repertoire that is wry, literate, witty, powerfully emotional and insightful.”(Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald). ... more

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