Goin' Home

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:26 pm

Thankyou so much this was played at my grandpa's funeral and was his favourite hymn. thankyou

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:05 am

HELP HELP Can somebody help me . I am trying to find which Harry Secombe album has the song 'goin home' on it. i would really like to get a copy of it and am having difficulty finding it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:21 pm

My mother, whose parents were both born in Czechoslovakia, said this is usually played at any 'Czech' funerals. She is quite elderly and just reading the lyrics make me cry.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:34 am

interesting however the words to Going Home as you have here are not the same as in the original sheet music published by the Oliver Ditson Co.

Mattie · Post by **Mattie** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:40 pm

I love Antonin Dvorak's "New World" Symphony and especially the largo of the second movement. The song/hymn "Goin' Home" is particularly moving.
Those of you who would like to listen to a wonderful rendition, the Canadian
Men's Chorus, Chor Leoni has included it on one of their CDs. Find it at -

http://www3.sympatico.ca/alan.teder/Skylark0102.htm
http://www.singers.com/choral/chorleoni.html
http://chorleoni.org//Recordings/Goin_H ... m=CEBE314C
http://www.a-cappella.com/product/4805/1042
http://www.skylark-music.com/chor_bio.html

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:11 pm

bride gary

words of song

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:53 pm

Does anyone know if this was the hymn sung at the church service which Bill Clinton attended prior to his first inauguration. I fell in love with this piece of music but did not know how to locate same.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:46 am

Thank you all for your postings. I have looked for the lyrics for over 4 years.
The military band played 'Going Home' at the funeral at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery when the love of my life was buried. I was too destroyed to even begin to ask about the hymn, though I knew the melody from Dvorak and knew that it was a spiritual.
It will be at my funeral, too - and now I have the lyrics. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:15 am

For me the most beautiful version of this song is by Paul Robeson. His intense bass voice gives extra depth to the meaning of this song.
Toke de Vries, Gemert, Netherlands

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:17 pm

Sadly my Mum passed away on October 4th this year, after losing her fight against cancer. The details for her funeral had never been communicated, but fortunately my father recalled that she loved this piece when played on a church organ. Carry my mother from the church while this was playing is something I will never forget.