Home Sweet Home

Gospel Collection

CHORUS:

Higher than the bluest sky…surely I have flown

On the wings of some white dove…Home Sweet Home

VERSE 1:

I’m slowly selling everything…everything I own

‘Cause I’ll be leaving in the morn…for Home Sweet Home

VERSE 2:

I think I’ll keep my fiddle…and keep the guitar too

And they might find a mandolin…hidden in my shoe

REPEAT CHORUS:

VERSE 3:

I hope to see my mother…and see the old man too

It’s time we got to know each other…after all we’ve been through

VERSE 4:

So watch for me on full moon nights…when all the hound dogs bay

Put me on the back porch…see how long I stay

REPEAT CHORUS / REPEAT LAST LINE

Copyright 1988 Shadric Smith All Rights Reserved

Supposed To Be Music

This song was written in 1988 during a spiritual moment. I included it in a batch of “bird songs” I recorded that year for a cassette/album project sponsored by The Children’s Bookshop in Brookline, Massachusetts. The white dove imagery seemed to somehow qualify it to be a part of that collection…called A Bird On The Wing In Iowa. ( See my previous Substack post for that song ). All the songs for that project were recorded at Junior’s Motel studio in Otho, Iowa with owner Kirk Kaufman engineering everything “live to 2 track”. Dave Hearn played piano & accordion, Brian Nelson played bass, and Kris Karr played drums, acoustic guitar, harmonica, and sang harmony. This was the “Billy Buffalo Band” I had been using to do live gigs whenever we could find them in northwest Iowa.

The Billy Buffalo Band in Badger, Iowa. L to R Dave Hearn, Kris Karr, SS, & Brian Nelson. Photo by Debbie Smith.

By 2014 I had written a number of “gospel flavored” songs….enough to warrant a new collection I released on CD-R using Home Sweet Home as the title song. In 2021 I used DistroKid to distribute this project to all the streaming services where you can still access them anytime you like.

The songs in this collection include several I have already written about here on the Substack platform….please check my archives for those posts:

Home Sweet Home

Halo For A Hatband ( See Substack 5/7/2026 )

Lord Give Me One More Day

My Tiny Heaven

You Must Be An Angel

On A Quiet Little Street In Heaven

Halfway Home To Jesus

Thank You Grandma For Saying A Prayer ( See Substack 2/26/2024 )

Tombstone Cowboy ( Co-Written with Dave Hearn….See Substack 1/23/2025 )

We’ll All Meet Up Again Someday ( See Substack 10/7/2025 )

Thanks for reading and listening this far. This is my 111th Substack post. Feel free to reach out to me regarding any commercial use of my music.