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Play Us A Tune: Goin' Home

David Margheim

In this week’s segment of Play Us a Tune, musician David Margheim brings us a song dedicated to his best friend, Scott Brower. They met as kids and made a lot of music together over the decades, including a song called Goin’ Home. But they never ended up recording it. In April, Scott died from complications of COVID-19. As a tribute, David decided he would finally record the song they wrote together years ago, and he performs it for us today. Here’s David Margheim with Goin’ Home. 

DM: We’ve known each other since we were teenagers, and over the years we performed together, we wrote and recorded a lot of music together. Even when we weren’t living in the same city of state we could still collaborate.

Quite a while back – I think it was early or mid-90’s – Scott wrote the lyrics for a song called Goin’ Home. I wrote the music. But we never recorded it. It just didn’t seem to fit with the kind of stuff we were doing at the time.

It took me a couple of weeks to process Scott’s passing, and then suddenly this song came to mind. It could have easily been forgotten, forever. I tried to produce it in a way that we might have recorded it long ago.

For all KNAU listeners, and especially for my best friend Scott, here’s Goin’ Home.

Like the tree that grows so tall

Leaves turn gold, and then they fall

They’ve gone down, but yet they’ve grown

They’re goin’ home

Mountain streams may run and flow

Clean the sand on which they go

Stretching down like it had known

It’s goin’ home

Sun rises early in the dawn

Slips away and then it’s gone

Leaves the night to carry on

While it’s goin’ home

Once a man lived and died

What he’d done death could not hide

Even though it’s often tried

But he was goin’ home

Sun rises early in the dawn

Slips away and then it’s gone

Leaves the night to carry on

While it’s goin’ home

Now my friends it’s time to go

And this love will live to grow

And I want you all to know

I’m goin’ home – I’m goin’ home

If you have an idea for a segment of Play Us a Tune, drop an email inquiry to Gillian.Ferris@nau.edu. 

Gillian Ferris was the News Director and Managing Editor for KNAU.