Welcome The Traveler Home

Welcome The Traveler Home
by John McCutcheon
© 1996 Appalsongs (ASCAP) (ASCAP)

Though dark is the night and narrow the way,
Though the tempest may rage and chill to the bone,
Still the promise is bright,
Like a beacon of light,
That will welcome the traveler home.
Welcome the traveler home
As out in this wide world we wander alone.
Though our ways twist and bend we know in the end
We will welcome the traveler home.

Though late is the hour and long is the road
And I stumble and stray from the path I have known
For this prodigal son,
The long journey’s done,
When you welcome the traveler home.
Welcome the traveler home
As out in this wide world we wander alone.
Though our ways twist and bend we know in the end
We will welcome the traveler home.

The seas they may bellow and the winds they may rise
Like ships on the deep far from shore.
We look to the harbor. We look to the skies
For the wide open heart and the wide open door.

Now five years and twenty here gathered again:
A harvest so ripe from the seeds we have sown.
Five and twenty years more,
Still our spirits will soar,
As we welcome the traveler home.
Welcome the traveler home
As out in this wide world we wander alone.
Though our ways twist and bend we know in the end
We will welcome the traveler home.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Doing Our Job CD.

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