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To Build a Home
Kelli O'Hara
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There's a boat that leaves Napoli
Every Thursday in the morning
And a nervous bride can share a bed with her soldier from the States
For a week the ocean carries them
Over lost and churning water
And they land in Royal Harbour
And in Pennsylvania Station
Where they board a train that slices
Like a scythe through the fields of America
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This is Albany
This is Buffalo
This is Cleveland
This is South Bay
This is Chicago
This is Osceola Station
Where a track will take them deeper into Iowa
To winter sun
And three hundred acres
Waiting to be tamed
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And blade of grass
By blade of grass
And ear of corn
By ear of corn
And bale of hay
By day by day
They build themselves a home
And day by day
And year by year
From boy to man
From calf to steer
What's lost from there may not grow here
But comes the sun
Look what they've done
They've built themselves a home
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At 21 a girl begins
To grasp the world and how it spins
She grabs a box of safety pins
And builds herself a home
And home is safe
And home is fair
The porch, the bath
The kitchen chair
The sharp and unfamiliar air
That blow by blow
She comes to know
To build herself a home
With a son
And a daughter
And the million miles between
The fire she used to set
The hearts she used to break
The lies she used to tell
And the woman she grew up to be
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I learn to speak
I learn to sew
I learn to let the longings go
The tractor wheel, the foot of snow
I build myself a home
I change my words
I change my name
The fields go dry
The horse goes lame
The county fair, the football game
For 18 years
It stays the same
For 18 years
I'm proud I came
And built myself
A home
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