Elvis Costello - The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration

Long Journey Home (Anthem) (from Long Journey Home)

If on every ocean the ship is a throne
And for each mast cut down another sapling is grown
Then I could believe that I'm bound to find
A better life than I left behind

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread
For the colors bled as they overflowed
Red, white and blue
Green, white and gold

So I had to leave from my country of birth
As for each child grown tall
Another lies in the earth
And for every rail we laid in the loam
There's a thousand miles of the long journey home

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread
For the colors bled as they overflowed
Red, white and blue
Green, white and gold



Credits
Writer(s): Elvis Costello, Paddy Moloney
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Other Album Tracks

  1. March of the King Laois / Paddy's Jig / O'Keefe's - The Chattering Magpie (Reels) (Live from An Irish Evening)
  2. The Foggy Dew (from The Long Black Veil)
  3. I Know My Love (from Tears of Stone)
  4. Cotton-Eyed Joe (from Another Country)
  5. The Magdalene Laundries (from Tears of Stone)
  6. Live From Matt Molloy's Pub (from Water from the Well)
  7. Shenandoah (from Long Journey Home)
  8. The Munster Cloak / An Poc Ar Buile / Ferney Hill - Little Molly (Reels) (New Release)
  9. Morning Has Broken (New Release)
  10. Morning Dew / Women of Ireland (from Another Country / The Chieftains Film Cuts)

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Altri album

  1. King Of America & Other Realms (Super Deluxe / 2024 Remaster)
  2. La Face de Pendule à Coucou
  3. Armed Forces (Super Deluxe Edition / Remastered 2020)
  4. Hey Clockface
  5. Armed Forces (Super Deluxe Edition)
  6. Newspaper Pane
  7. We Are All Cowards Now / Phonographic Memory
  8. Purse
  9. Look Now
  10. Someone Else's Heart

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