Frank Turner - To Take You Home lyrics

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I come from the land of the Wessex down<br />

From the Hampshire hills near Winchester town<br />

In the country where the soft South rivers flow down<br />

To English channel I roam, this is where I call home<br />

I sing for my supper and I'm pretty well fed<br />

My cross is silent and I make my bed<br />

Where I can find a crown and somewhere to lay my head<br />

And the travelling day is done, and all my songs have been sung<br />

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But honey I was lonely on the road, I was all on my own<br />

Hanging outside at the back of a death metal show<br />

I saw you standing there with your hair down low<br />

A kink in your step that made me want to know<br />

If you would like to take me home<br />

Who'd of thought that a French kiss from a Parisian girl<br />

Could capture an English boy<br />

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She comes from the channels of a distant shore<br />

From the land of revolution and eyes in court<br />

From the Kings blood stain on a tricolour<br />

And the culture a little too high, for an English boy like me<br />

She doesn't know the Island I grew up upon<br />

The valleys and the hills that I've roamed along<br />

And she doesn't like my clothes and she doesn't like my songs<br />

But she's still my Mademoiselle and it goes to show you never can tell.<br />

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Cos she was a quiet one<br />

She was a shy one<br />

She was the prettiest at the show<br />

She crept up so slowly<br />

She crept up behind me<br />

But still she pretended that she didn't know<br />

But all that she thinks of me, and she kissed me<br />

And she's yet to let me go though I'm far away<br />

Across of sea I'm singing for the hope that she would ever remember me<br />

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So honey when you're lonely on the road, you're all on your own<br />

Hanging outside at the back of the country show<br />

Picture me there with hat down low<br />

A smile upon my face to let you know<br />

That I would like to take you home<br />

That I would like to take you home, to the hills that I know<br />

I would like to take you home, to the places I go<br />

I would like to take you home<br />

And that's the way that a French kiss from an English boy<br />

Can capture a Parisian girl