“Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door””

Lots of songs about travelling out there to fit Helen’s theme for this week, of course. My first thought – as it usually is – was something by the Grateful Dead, and there’s certainly no shortage of them either.

However, I see that another participant has already contributed an excellent and informative post about a Dead song, so I thought I’d go for something closer to home (appropriate for travelling). This song by The Proclaimers has something close to the status of a second national anthem in Scotland: it;s played at football and rugby matches and at the end of the night at every wedding you’re ever likely to go to – including those of both my children.

Plus, if you read the verses as well as the iconic (and usually raucous) chorus, you can see that it’s a song equally as much about coming home as travelling. I travelled a lot in my job for many years and, believe me, the best bit was coming home.

[sorry about the formatting; WordPress doesn’t seem to understand the concept of spaces between verses]