This is one of the first songs I remember and there was someone on a bus singing it; a slow bus windings its way around narrow country roads through green fields. We were travelling to see our Gran with whom we were living at the time and it was going home. The idea of home and displacement had come to us early, losing a mother young. The idea of separation and yearning for something lost wasn't hard to relate to and I like the gentle, slightly rueful quality in Paul Simon's voice which rose into a sort of defiance in the chorus. Gone through many musical genres since then but always had affection for this song.
This is one of the first songs I remember and there was someone on a bus singing it; a slow bus windings its way around narrow country roads through green fields. We were travelling to see our Gran with whom we were living at the time and it was going home. The idea of home and displacement had come to us early, losing a mother young. The idea of separation and yearning for something lost wasn't hard to relate to and I like the gentle, slightly rueful quality in Paul Simon's voice which rose into a sort of defiance in the chorus. Gone through many musical genres since then but always had affection for this song.