Written by Les Brown, Ben Homer and Bud Green; Doris Day's 1945 recording with Les Brown's band became a symbol of soldiers coming home.
The words
A traveller sets off by train for home, eager to return to the places and people of the past.
The song is about heading home after a long time away, with the train journey itself becoming a way to recover old memories. It caught the mood of the end of the Second World War, when many were making exactly that trip. Dylan gives it an easy, rolling rhythm and a warm, nostalgic tone, as if he were looking out of a train window himself.
Words by Bud Green
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The words
A traveller sets off by train for home, eager to return to the places and people of the past.
The song is about heading home after a long time away, with the train journey itself becoming a way to recover old memories. It caught the mood of the end of the Second World War, when many were making exactly that trip. Dylan gives it an easy, rolling rhythm and a warm, nostalgic tone, as if he were looking out of a train window himself.
Words by Bud Green
Lyrics on Lyrics.com ↗The same year · 2017
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