[Intro] (fingerpicked guitar, single fiddle note) --- [Verse 1] He spotted me on a bus in the pouring rain A stranger with a smile and a window pane Northern Ireland calling, and we didn't know why But some roads lead you home beneath a grey-green sky --- [Verse 2] Finvoy Road — I said the name out loud Didn't know my blood was in that County Antrim cloud Knockans Cemetery, and the names carved in stone Every stone a story, every stone a road back home --- [Chorus] Come back, come back That's what Margaret said Come back, come back To where your people spread From these fields to the sea From Cobh to a new world door I didn't know until I stood here That I'd been here before --- [Verse 3] Elwin Gray left the shores of Cobh one morning long ago For a new life, for a new world, for a road she didn't know And somehow down the years and all the lives between She brought us back to Finvoy Road to places we had seen --- [Bridge — spoken, very quiet, almost a whisper] Margaret asked us... "You'll come back?" (pause) And standing there on that road in the rain looking at the names — I understood for the first time why we travel. Not to go somewhere new. To go somewhere true. --- [Chorus] Come back, come back That's what the old roads say Come back, come back We've been waiting all the way From these fields to the sea From Cobh to a new world door I didn't know until I stood here That I'd been here before --- [Outro — slow fade, just fiddle and voice] In a little pub the trad music played and we stayed and we stayed and we stayed (fiddle fades)
