Always Rollin' Home
(Bob Nolan)
I’m a rollin’ stone … always rollin’ home
I guess I’ll have to break the habit
Sorry now I ever had it for I’m always rollin’ home
Travelin’ all alone, guess I should have known
That when the summer breeze a blowin’
Brings a smell of things a-growin’
I’d be always rollin’ home.
I never knew how much I’ve missed that old pine tree
It seems that I can hear him sighin’ just for me
Won’t you please come home
The lonely years have flown
And brought that old familiar feelin’
To my heart that comes a stealin’
When I’m always rollin’ home.
Ever since the day I went away
I’ve been always rollin’ home
Everything I left behind me
Seemed to say Why did you roam
The little gal I loved so well is calling
Calling to her rollin’ stone.
Now no matter where I go my heart’s returnin’
And I’m always rollin’ home.
"Always
Rollin Home" was used as a riding song by a group of RCMP officers played by
Charles Starrett and the Sons of the Pioneers in Columbia Pictures' "Outpost of the Mounties" (1939 09 14).
The version you are listening to was taken from the soundtrack. Incidentally,
Bob looked the quintessential Mountie in perfectly-fitted red serge.
Image courtesy of Les Adams
We have been unable to unearth sheet music but Bob Nolan's repertoire box
contained a lyric sheet. On the lyric
sheet Bob has penciled “where the blossoms smell the sweetest” and the key
designation. We have found no sheet music for this song and the only recording
we have is from the soundtrack of "Outpost of the Mounties".
There are minor differences between the performance version and the lyrics from the
repertoire box.
Lyric sheet in the Calin Coburn Collection Vol. 2, 2001
pp.264-265, Bob Nolan 1908-1980