“Home Thoughts From Abroad” — Clifford T. Ward

No Words, No Song
4 min readApr 3, 2021
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Poetry lovers will recognise the reference to the famous Robert Browning poem (although Browning stylised it “Home-Thoughts, From Abroad”). Sadly Clifford T. Ward’s song lives on today only in the memories of those of us old enough to remember listening to the radio in the mid-1970s.

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.