The Road Home – Stephen Paulus

A performance of ‘The Road Home’ by Stephen Paulus, who sadly passed ten years ago now. With this performance, we would like to pay our greatest respects to this remarkable composer. The road home sets Browne’s text to the tune ‘Prospect’, an American shape-note hymn tune compiled in Southern Harmony in 1835.

Tell me, where is the road I can call my own

That I left, that I lost So long ago

All these years I have wandered

Oh, when will I know

There’s a way, there’s a road

That will lead me home.

After wind, after rain

When the dark is done

As I wake from a dream

In the gold of day

Through the air there’s a calling

From far away

There’s a voice I can hear

That will lead me home.

Rise up, follow me

Come away, is the call

With the love in your heart

As the only song

There is no such beauty

As where you belong

Rise up, follow me

I will lead you home.