I’LL BE COMING HOME TO GLASGOW

I’LL BE COMING HOME TO GLASGOW

by

Matt McGinn

Sing the chorus of this song

In the town where I belong

Tell my people

I’ll be coming home to Glasgow

In a foreign far off place

With my raincoat and my case

I’d run to catch some transportation home

Up there came to me a man

And he shook me by the hand

He said, ‘Friend, if you are on your way to Glasgow……

Sing the chorus of this song

In the town where I belong

Tell my people

I’ll be coming home to Glasgow’

Well, a tear fell from his eye

As he said, ‘Before I die

I long to walk the Gallowgate again

And feel the warmth and the pride

Of the folk in Kelvinside

And see again the friendly streets of Glasgow’

Sing the chorus of this song

In the town where I belong

Tell my people

I’ll be coming home to Glasgow

He was crying bitterly

As the train left Waverley

And he made his way down Princes Street once more

Then the diesel gathered power

I was home within the hour

And I sang this little song for him in Glasgow

Sing the chorus of this song

In the town where I belong

Tell my people

I’ll be coming home to Glasgow