Coming Home To You
Leon composed this love song with the intent of recording it with The Three City Four. The copyright is 1967, dating it to around the time the group was making its final recordings. The lyric shows a sentimental vulnerability, and has something in common with the period "Do You Remember?", a similarly intimate text. Leon would record it as a solo number some years afterwards, with Martin Carthy on guitar.
"I wrote this as a sort of pop-folk song for the 3 City 4, who rightly wished I'd never bothered. I think the tune's pretty, though." - LR (Look Here (songbook), 1968)
“I remember singing it to Gerry Bron, owner of Bron Music. ‘Not quite a hit,’ he said. The Three City Four weren’t impressed either. Eventually it was squeezed onto my 1971 LP The Word Is Hugga Mugga... where it generated a fine guitar break from Martin Carthy. - LR (sleevenotes to The World Turned Upside Down (CD box set), p10)
“I remember singing it to Gerry Bron, owner of Bron Music. ‘Not quite a hit,’ he said. The Three City Four weren’t impressed either. Eventually it was squeezed onto my 1971 LP The Word Is Hugga Mugga... where it generated a fine guitar break from Martin Carthy. - LR (sleevenotes to The World Turned Upside Down (CD box set), p10)
Recordings
Version 1 (1971)