Going Home (Bagpipes)

Dvoraks New World Symphony. "Going Home" is an old Negro song, its said, based on an old man in his final days who sees his own death.

A beautiful piece, with a really nice version by Libera (also on YouTube).

Lyrics:

1. Going home. Going home. I'm a-going home.
Quiet-like some still day, I'm just going home.
It's not far, just close by, through an open door.
Work all done, cares laid by, Going to fear no more;

Mother's there expecting me, Father's waiting, too.
Lot's of folks gathered there. All the friends I knew.

2. Morning star lights the way, restless dream all done.
Shadows gone, break of day, real life just begun.

There's no break, there's no end, just a-living on;
Wide awake, with a smile, going on and on.

Going home. Going home, I'm just going home.
It's not far, just close by, through an open door.

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[celticquester03]

To all the folk who suggest that if your of Scottish heritage,but have never been,then your no Scot.bullshit.I've lived in England most of my life,but have never lost my accent,always longed tae come home.to a celt,the land is who they are.every celt has a longing tae live in the lands of thier ancestors,have a love of narure,art and music that is deep in thier souls,along with a longing fe the past..if a horse is born in a kennel,it still won't become a dog.god bless the exiled.

[Jak Johnson]

A true Scot may proclaim "There will always be an England!"

But afterward, he'll say "as long as Scotland's there."

[therealjoebloggs]

The War of 1812 was fought as a the North American theatre of the Napoleonic Wars, because Britain would press-gang naturalized Irish and British sailors from American ships in order to crew their own. Bad enough they expected the Americans to just hand over British-subject sailors, but American citizens? Of course, the whole war was done just to discommode the British, who already had their hands full with ol' Nappy-Boy, and get the Brits to pay attention to other issues the US had with the UK.

[harshwilly]

Some interesting and some ignorant comments here (great tune, even better on the pipes) but if you're interested the US is simply the western version of the British Empire, as Rome separated into East and West, very similar. The very basis for the Revolution is in British law (no taxation without representation) and the writers of the Constitution were heavily influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment and were mostly British (ie English, Irish, Scots, Welsh)

[harshwilly]

"...they sure did keep the crown from decimating any land..." indicates a less than perfect understanding - whatever gripes the US may have had about conditions after the revolt, they were the aggressor in 1812 and had notions about annexing part or all of what came to be known later as Canada. Also the British continued to support Indian claims: the Proclamation of 1763 forbid western settlement without specific agreements with the local tribes which the US ignored and started the Indian Wars.

[Rory Gibbons]

I was born in China of Colonial Parents, "Scotland was home." and still is, in my heart, my soul and all that makes me what I am, went "home." as a boy after W.W.2 we where Japanese prisoners during the war, if any of you saw a film called Empire Of The Sun that was the camp my entire family was interned in. When I die, my oldest child will take my ashes "home." to be scattered at Loch Lomond where I was welcomed "home as a child."

[SuperToneDef]

Yes Washington was burned, but that was only in retaliation to the burning of York.

[SuperToneDef]

A bunch of privilege people who never worked a day in their life, we got those, but we call it Congress.

[arrrobbbie]

America?

Where are you talking about? There was a war between Canada and the USA in 1812. That was a war between the British in Canada and the British in the USA . The British in Canada won that one.

If you are talking about the American war of Independence that was a war between British in the USA and the British British.

The British won that one to.

In fact the British have never lost a war.

[arrrobbbie]

It is a good union if you are comfortable being ruled from a foreign country and a House of Lords full of bishops and privileged people that have never worked a day in their lives.

[catlord98765]

No one truely one the war of 1812. However USA's presidential building did burn down.

[Rob Roy]

umm i don't know if you know this but America kind of won the war of 1812. and by i mean kind of they got the right to sail and trade freely, was that through military successes? no. but they sure did keep the crown from decimating any land, and the U.S. got their national anthem out of it. so i dont see what your getting at. please explain