ComeHome: From A Trip to Bountiful

Come Home...silently, tenderly...sinners come home, from the closing credits for the movie "A Trip to Bountiful" with the great Geraldine Page.

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Music

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• Come Home
• Sinners
• A Trip to Bountiful
• Geraldine Page

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Sunnyelaine999:

It's a wonderful piece, as you note. And, inded, the song is "Softly and Tenderly" which we had listed when we first put it on YouTube.

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[Aussiemarco]

The first time I saw this amazing film was about 15 years ago on TV. I'd never heard of it, and had just walked into my parent's house a few mins after it had started. Within a few mins of watching it I was hooked, and 2 hours later as these credits rolled, both my Mum and I were sobbing our little hearts out!

Watching this film is a privilege - you know you are witnessing greatness captured on film. Its easily one of the greatest achievements of cinema.

[DIESELBROWNBOY]

One of the best movies of all times.

[pilates68]

This is the finest arraingment of this hymn. Absolutely beautiful (and I'm an Athiest) The Celtic/Appalachian instrumental at the end is so full of sweet phrasing it's a shame it's not part of the actual hymn. A great movie to, by one of America's underrated playwrights, the late Horton Foote. Pathos in simplicity.

[LeslieSteeg]

I love this movie and this song is beautiful!!!!!

[IrisMG]

@tcmisback Cynthia has a website, she owns her music now (independent artist) and sells it on her website. Cynthia Clawson dot com and the song is on her album Immortal. Cynthia's voice is deeper now but is still beautiful.

[15grands]

The first time I watched this movie was in 1987 a week or 2 after my mother had died and I learned it was the last movie she watched and had loved it so much, everytime I watch (own the dvd) I remember all the love of this woman I called mother. She loved the song, Softly and tenderly.

[Ambicatus]

One cannot put one's foot in the same river twice, based on Heraclitus. This is one of the tragedies of human mortality and the passage of time.

[JustinVyor]

One of the times I've cried hardest in all cinema is at the end of "Trip to Bountiful" as Carrie Watts (Geraldine Page) sat in the back seat of her son's car, trying to keep a stiff upper lip as he drover her away from the town she'd never see again, and the singer began the first few words of this song . . . "Come home." I've never forgotten it since the day I saw the film years ago when it was first released. And I never will.

[sekydsined]

Tremendous piece of film art,  I believe this my favorite Cynthia Clawson recording, too.

[tcmisback]

anyone have this song if u can please email it to me jasonatkinson1982@yahoo.com if u sent it email me here first so i be sure to see it cause i dont check my mail everyday

[alphashed]

I do not know what makes a show magical but I know that this film is indeed an American Treasure. This song, in all its haunting beauty, was sung in our old wooden Baptist Church so many times. It inspires the soul. Horton Foote, Geraldine Page, John Hurt combined for a wondrous piece of our American film history.

[OneKewpie]

That's the beautiful voice of Cynthia Clawson singing Softly and Tenderly, an old Sacred song. I love it! ~OneKewpie~