Away too long

I returned to my old hometown one day

It was years ago I'd gone away

The girls to use to care

Had things to do elsewhere

I felt a stranger there

I've been away too long

It was much too late for me

To walk in memory

And lonely as could be

I looked around

Jane had wed her school friend Johnny Brown

Pat had wed the tailor of the town

The lovely Marie-Claire

Had wed her millionaire

And no one seemed to care

I've been away too long

I'd been away too long

To hang around was wrong

And so I went alone

To fine the boys

Tom has got a family of three

Jim had gone away to gay Paris

And Joe once full of life

Now runs home to his wife

And so I drunk alone

To yesterday

And as the sun went down

I left my own hometown

I left my old hometown

I've been away too long

I've been away too long

I've been away too long