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Home Again

from Zersch by James Hersch

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Thanks to Arne Setzler and Denny Felling

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I learned some of my favorite songs
Under the Milky Way
Sitting around a campfire
Charlie on the MTA
I picked up my sister’s guitar
I learned how to play
It wasn’t long before Larry and Tom
Had booked our band for pay

In the junkyard we pulled the parts
To build a PA of our own
Someone’s Dad had an amplifier
Someone found a microphone
Carried it all behind our bikes
In the wagons we’d outgrown
Learned Summertime Blues, Iron Butterfly
And the Rolling Stones

At the American Legion Hall
There was a bandstand with lights
Boys, it felt like a dream to play
Music on a Saturday night
Standing up there for real
To feel what it’s like
Those nights with my friends, they play in my head
Like an old black and white

INTERLUDE

I’m crowding sixty two, boys
Holding a guitar
Maybe I’m a fool, boys
To chase it this far
There’s a beat to this life
There’s a beat to this heart
Chase it right to the end, every song that I can
Until the bandstand goes dark

That song about Charlie, they say
He never returned again
It occurs to me now
Maybe I’m a little like him
I jumped on the train
And the places I’ve been
No matter how far I go, it’s the ones I love so
Take me home again

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from Zersch, released August 10, 2021
Instruments and sounds used:
Gibson J-50, Gibson J-160E, real Melodica, Hammond B3 Organ sample

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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