Written about an old farmhouse in New Hampshire. Some people grow up
and leave their childhood homes without a further thought. Others
seem to grow up and have left their hearts behind.

Meridan Road

Time-Signature: 3/4 Capo: 2 Comments: Style: Flatpick Tempo:

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    Bobby and Carol grew up in a farmhouse, the
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    old Benwood place out on Meridan Road, for
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    two hundred years it had stood as a landmark, some
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    years as a tavern, some years as a home


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    Generations of Yankees had lived there and played there
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    Drunk there and danced there on Meridan Road
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    Some years in red, and some years in white, the
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    farmhouse that Bobby and Carol called home


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    Bobby and Carol grew up and moved onward, when
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    Lebanon Valley could hold them no more
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    He joined the Air Force and went off to Britain, she
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    married in Boston and had kids of her own, but
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    still in their minds was a sturdy red farmhouse
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    surrounded by maples on Meridan Road, and
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    back they would travel, no matter the distance, to
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    spend every Christmas on Meridan Road


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    Finally their parents grew tired and moved onward
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    leaving the farmhouse on Meridan Road, for
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    all of their lives it had stood in the background, no
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    matter how far, it had always been home, for
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    Carol and children, life’s stages continue
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    it’s been a long time since Meridan Road
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    that story's ended, her children’s has started
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    home's now the place that their children call home, but


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    Bobby’s heart never left that old farmhouse, his
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    ghost will return back to Meridan Road,   to
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    join with the others who down through the years
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    found home in Benwood on Meridan Road