How Can I Call This Home? [2023 Broadway Cast Recording]
Parade Cast Ensemble, Micaela Diamond, Ben Platt
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I go to bed at night Hoping when I wake This will all be gone Like it was just a dream And I'll be home again Back again in Brooklyn Back with people who look like I do And talk like I do And think like I do But then The sun rises in Atlanta again These people make me tense I live in fear they'll start a conversation These people make no sense They talk and I just stare and shut my mouth It's like a foreign land I didn't understand That being southern's not just Being in the South When I look out on all this How can I call this home? (La-la-la in the land o' cotton) These men belong in zoos It's like they never joined civilization The Jews are not like Jews I thought that Jews were Jews But I was wrong I thought I would be fine But four years down the line With every word it's very clear I don't belong I don't cuss, I don't drawl So how can I call this home? Home calls and I'm free of The southern breeze Free of magnolia trees And endless sunshine! (Ever more lives the dream of Atlanta) ever more lives the dream of Atlanta But not mine! Of Atlanta Not mine (we stand together) A yankee with a college education Who by his own design In the great state of Georgia! Is trapped inside the land That time forgot! (Strong and proud) I'm trapped inside this life And trapped beside a wife Who would prefer I'd say "Howdy!", not "Shalom!" Well, I'm sorry, Lucille (God bless the sight) But I feel what I feel (of the old hills of Georgia) (ever more lives the dream of Atlanta) And this place is surreal (the old red hills of) (ever more Her eternal) So how can I call this home? (Old red hills of home! Old red hills of home!)
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Written by: Jason Brown
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