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Songwriter: Afi Scruggs

Senior: Wilma Holiday

Written by Afi Scruggs as part of Roots of American Music’s “Hough is My Home” series, a songwriting collaboration between ROAM teaching artists/musicians and senior adults who regularly attend the Fatima Family Center in Cleveland’s Hough community. Afi collaborated with Wilma Holiday, who moved from Georgia to the Hough neighborhood as a preteen. Wilma sincerely loves the street where she grew up and talks about how everyone knew each other, then and now. Although she currently lives in Slavic Village, she is intent on moving back to Hough.

Wilma Holiday

Lyrics

Chorus:
Home, I’m going home
It’s the place, where I belong
I’m going
Home, to my home
It’s the place, where I belong

Verse 1:
Everyone I knew
I know them still,
They will run to me.
So glad to see me

Chorus

Verse 2:
Walking down my street (right there on Whitmore)
From the present to the past
Remembering dancing with my friends
Seems the music never ended at my

Chorus:
Home, my sweet home,
It’s the place, where I belong
I’m going
Home, back to my home
It’s the place, where I belong
Bridge I don’t live across the river, but it feels so far away
I could catch a bus tomorrow, but I want to plant my feet and stay
Home

(Trumpet solo)

Bridge

(piano solo and bass solo for outro)