Listen to To Build a Home by Kelli O'Hara & Company of The Original Broadway Cast Of "Bridges Of Madison County"

To Build a Home

Kelli O'Hara & Company of The Original Broadway Cast Of "Bridges Of Madison County"

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Kelli O'Hara

Vocals

Company of The Original Broadway Cast Of "Bridges Of Madison County"

Company of The Original Broadway Cast Of "Bridges Of Madison County"

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Jason Robert Brown

Jason Robert Brown

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Jason Robert Brown

Jason Robert Brown

Producer

Jeffrey Lesser

Producer

Lyrics

There's a boat that leaves Napoli

Every Thursday in the morning

And a nervous bride can share a bed with her soldier from the States

For a week the ocean carries them

Over lost and churning water

And they land in Royal Harbour

And in Pennsylvania Station

Where they board a train that slices

Like a scythe through the fields of America

This is Albany

This is Buffalo

This is Cleveland

This is South Bay

This is Chicago

This is Osceola Station

Where a track will take them deeper into Iowa

To winter sun

And three hundred acres

Waiting to be tamed

And blade of grass

By blade of grass

And ear of corn

By ear of corn

And bale of hay

By day by day

They build themselves a home

And day by day

And year by year

From boy to man

From calf to steer

What's lost from there may not grow here

But comes the sun

Look what they've done

They've built themselves a home

At 21 a girl begins

To grasp the world and how it spins

She grabs a box of safety pins

And builds herself a home

And home is safe

And home is fair

The porch, the bath

The kitchen chair

The sharp and unfamiliar air

That blow by blow

She comes to know

To build herself a home

With a son

And a daughter

And the million miles between

The fire she used to set

The hearts she used to break

The lies she used to tell

And the woman she grew up to be

I learn to speak

I learn to sew

I learn to let the longings go

The tractor wheel, the foot of snow

I build myself a home

I change my words

I change my name

The fields go dry

The horse goes lame

The county fair, the football game

For 18 years

It stays the same

For 18 years

I'm proud I came

And built myself

A home

Written by: Jason Robert Brown

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