Red Steagall - A Long Way From Montana lyrics

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<b>A Long Way From Montana</b> by <i>Red Steagall</i><br />A long way it is from Montana

To west Texas whether by hoof or by rail

A long way it is from Alzada

To innocence lost somewhere out on

The trail

And my heart is lonesome and longing

My comrades are gone on the first

Morning Train

And my heart hears a boyhood hymn calling

From a church down the valley comes this

Old refrain

Chorus:

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling

Calling for you and for me

See on the portals, he's waiting

And watching

Watching for you and for me

Too many autumns I've watched 'em

Board trains with their plunder all headed

For home

And too many autumns I've stayed here

To snap out the new ones 'fore winter

Comes on

And I wonder who's waiting for them

A sweetheart or lover or young wife

With babe

But I know who's waiting for me

A mother and father who's hair has

Turned to gray

Chorus:

Come home, come home

Wanderin' cowboy, come home

Earnestly, tenderly, I hear them calling

My son, it's time to come home

I've lingered long in this country

From high thunder basin to where

Rim lands start

And I've lingered too long a sinner

It's time that I pack up and follow my heart

A long way it is from Alzada

To a little sod house on the west Texas plains

A long way it is from Montana

But I'm going home on the next

Southbound train

Refrain:

A long way it is from Montana