Home and Free

 

The creeks and the pond are calling

Me home to the Eastern Shore

The DC traffic slows me

But I break free just after four

On across the Anacostia

Highway 50 so clean in the sun

Passing by the Bowie exits 

Annapolis next on my run

 

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All the rivers, trees and fields

All the birds that come and go

Defy these troubled times

Bring me peace and let me go

 

The Bay Bridge rises gently

Over freighters far down below

Kent Island, first home to people

Ten thousand years ago

Kent Narrows, feared by sailors

Then the road turns southward bound

For Easton and then Cambridge

And old Salisbury farther down

 

CHORUS

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Queen Anne’s Highway to crowded beaches

But I will not turn that way

Skipton Creek winds twice beneath me

On its way down to the Bay

The Easton Bypass takes me on around

To the Oxford Road

Peachblossom Creek, and I’m getting

So much closer to my home

 

There’s a herd of Belted Galways

In a field off to the east

Two young horses by their stable

And a gaggle of Canada Geese

Across Trippe Creek, and then at last

I’m home and I am free

Like the Martins in their houses

And the eagles in their tree

 

CHORUS

 

David - lead vocal

Jay Byrd - guitars and backing vocals

Kristen Jones - cello

Jim Robeson - backing vocals