Nancy Kerr 2014
Written for Rich Arrowsmith's 40th birthday. Middle 3 verses emphasizing forty not subsequently recorded.
Chorus:
Hand me down some changing rhyme
Some embraces never bind
Oh hand me down your dancing line
Then I’ll know I’m home
Then I’ll know I’m home
When I arrived in this old town (Hand me down oh hand me down)
When I arrived in this old town
Some forty voices they gathered round (And I was coming home I was coming home)
There’s forty acres in freedom’s field / And forty summers will bless the yield
There’s forty nations upon the sea / and forty horsemen will ferry me
Sing forty verses around the bar / With forty beers but not too far
Some go ahead, some stay behind / We navigate by the souls we find
I’m navigating by one more star / It’s shining bright to show I’ve come this far