Lyrics to
Wrong Direction Home

This version of Wrong Direction Home was released by Dolly Parton in 1973.

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In a shingle covered cottage at the foothills of blue stacks
Near a mountain stream that’s flowing crystal clear
Where the humming birds and honey bees feed on Mama’s roses
My mem’ries just grow sweeter with the years
Mem’ries of my childhood are as sweet as mountain honey
And as fresh as a dew on morning glory vines
I grew up surrounded by the sights and sounds of nature
And they’re forever present in my mind

But I’m headed in the wrong direction home
Headed in the wrong direction home
There’s no place like home
But I’m headed in the wrong direction home

Teardrops mingled with the summer rain that was a falling
The day I left my mountain home behind
With a suitcase in my hand and a hope in my heart
I was following a dream I had to find

In that shingled covered cottage at the foothills of the smokies
Waits a family hat I’m longing to see
And mountain streams and fields of green
And rolling hills stay in my dreams
But I’m many, many miles from Tennessee

And still headed in the wrong direction home
Headed in the wrong direction home
But maybe I’ll get back before too long
But I’m headed in the wrong direction home

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Wrong Direction Home. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and Wrong Direction Home by Dolly Parton

The lyrics for Wrong Direction Home are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Dolly Parton. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Wrong Direction Home have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Wrong Direction Home - Dolly Parton and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Wrong Direction Home by Dolly Parton in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Wrong Direction Home" means the words set to the music of Wrong Direction Home, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Wrong Direction Home and the lyrics to Wrong Direction Home are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Wrong Direction Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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