[Chorus] There's something about coming back to your hometown again The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends And though none of them still live here, and I've got nowhere to go I'm a Wessex Boy, and when I'm here, I'm home
[Chorus] There's something about coming back to your hometown again The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends And though none of them still live here, and I've got nowhere to go I'm a Wessex boy, a Wessex boy, and when I'm here, I'm home
[Bridge 1] And one day I will hear this song anonymous and sweet Ringing out from a busker's guitar on the ancient city streets I'll pause a while and smile before I continue on alone And somebody else will sing the words and I'll feel like I'm home
[Chorus] There's something about coming back to your hometown again The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends And though none of them still live here, and I've got nowhere to go I'm a Wessex boy, I'm a Wessex boy, and when I'm here, I'm home
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“Wessex Boy” is a song from England Keep My Bones, Frank Turner’s 2011 album. It’s about Frank’s connection to his home of Wessex, England, but more broadly, about the connection that anyone has to his or her hometown. Wessex was made famous by the novelist Thomas Hardy long before Frank was born!
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