Bringing Winston Home

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Lynda Dobbin-Turner

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Father's Day 1994
A little band of travelers came to our door
Asked if we could help them out
They'd been looking for hours and they were quite lost
Did we know where the ferry used to cross
And then they told us what it was about
See, Dad had passed away last fall
And he made them promise one and all
When the spring time came they'd take his ashes back
To the place he'd loved when he was a child
Where youth was innocent and dreams ran wild
But he was eighty-some years old and they'd lost track
They could not have known
They were bringing Winston home
He'd been raised by his Grandpa
They said his name
We realized it was just the same
Family who had lived here years ago
And when they realized what it was they'd found
They asked if they could take a look around
So we took them to a special place we know
Where you can see for miles and miles around
And watch that river wind below
And then they sprinkled a few ashes
At the base of a big old oak
They could not have known
They were bringing Winston home
I later asked a few old timers
If his name did ring a bell
They said yes that they'd grown up with him
And they'd known him really well
But a chill ran up and down me
As their story did unfold
And the part that haunts me still is 'bout when they told
How Winston's Grandpa had been the ferry man
One thing Winston could do was swim
So he taught all the others what he knew
But the river ran so far below
So he made a ladder out of chunks of rope
So they could haul themselves back up
When they were through
Then he tied it to an old oak tree
And when they made there way up top
They'd lean against it's trunk for hours and hours
And laugh and joke and talk
Now all of us know
Winston found his way back home
Now all of us know
Winston found his way back home

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