"Adam Selene's by-line appeared first in dignified pages of
	_Moonglow_ over a somber poem titled: "Home."  Was dying
	thoughts of old transportee, his discovery as he is about
	to leave that Luna is his beloved home.  Language was
	simple, rhyme scheme unforced, only thing faintly subversive
	was conclusion on part of dying man that even many wardens
	he has endured was not too high a price."
		- R.A.H, _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, p. 120


HOME
Music and lyrics by Evan Hunt

(Capo up 3)

   G            Bm
my name is John Porter
    Em         D
and I was transported
    C                  G  D
way back in the year '29
  G           Bm
I took a long trip
      Em              D
and I walked off that ship
       C                           D
to the cot that I'd bought with my crime

               C                             G
and they said, keep your nose clean and hair combed
    C                       G    D
you only reap what you have sown
   G         Bm
so be a good cobber
   Em         D
do everything proper
    C          D            G
and maybe someday you'll go home

        G           Bm
well, I sure wasn't ready
    Em            D
for prison work's heavy
   C                     G       D
no matter how little you weigh
G          Bm
working up topside
    Em           D
maintaining the 'locks, I'd
   C                       D
be risking my breath every day

          C                          G
but every time I stepped out of that dome
C                      G     D
how the Earth overhead shone
G                Bm
I'd reach out to touch her
    Em           D
and loved her so much, for
  C             D          G
I knew that someday I'd go home

G             Bm
I finished my sentence
Em            D
filled with repentance
     C                         G    D
(and beer) and they said I was free
   G          Bm
so I took the tube
         Em      D
to where nobody knew me
    C                     D
and looked for a job in L.C.

             C                           G
next thing I knew I was drilling through stone
C                   G   D
making my way on my own
     G            Bm
each day with the laser
  Em         D
I went a bit crazier
    C          D            G
but someday, I swore I'd go home

   G           Bm
my partner and I did some
Em         D
tunneling, lighted 'em
C                    G    D
up, and we started a farm
   G          Bm
we met a nice woman
Em           D
asked her to come in
    C                         D
and love us, and keep us both warm

              C                        G
and it wasn't long 'fore she gave us a son
       C                        G  D
then a daughter, and so on, and on
      G             Bm
and I told the kids stories
   Em           D
of all the fair glories
   C            D         G
of Earth, our beloved lost home

        C
        isn't it funny
            G
        how something can be
                 C
        right in front of
                         G
        your face, but unseen?
             C
        life passes you by
                G
        and you don't even see
                      C
        'cause you're trying
                      G    D
        to cling to a dream...

        G           Bm
I could never quite make it
   Em        D
to save up a stake, it's just
C                      G   D
pushing uphill all the way
     G           Bm
sell ten tons of rice
     Em      D
at Authority prices
        C                         D
and you wind up with more debt to pay

            C                          G
and all the years, how swiftly they've flown
   C                          G     D
my children and grandchildren grown
    G              Bm
but still, on I've striven
    Em          D
and never quite given
   C          D         G
up saving for my ticket home

         G         Bm
now it's been many years
         Em         D
and I've shed a few tears
         C                  G     D
but I've also had joy in my heart
      G         Bm
and today I see clearly
     Em            D
I've loved my life dearly
    C                          D
and got what I sought from the start

             C                         G
and not even all of the work that I've done
    C                        G     D
nor all of the troubles I've known
    G          Bm
nor all of the burdens
    Em       D
not even the Wardens
     C          D            G
were too high a price for my home

           C                       G
yes, now I know that I'm where I belong
     C                      G   D
as I say my farewells in my song
  G           Bm
I look to the past
      Em          C
and I know at the last
     Am        D        G   D
that Luna was always my home
   G           Bm
I reach out to touch her
    Em          C/G
and love her so much... for
  Am             D            G
I know that I've finally come home
C   Am
oh, Luna
     D
I've finally come
G   Bm  Em  D  C  D  G
home

		- Santa Cruz CA
		  July 4, 2007