“That Home Far Away” is a bluegrass gospel song credited to Ruby Rakes. The Stanley Brothers recorded it in 1959, during the years when they were building a large body of sacred material alongside their secular songs.
The lyric is a song of return. The singer confesses to having wandered from the straight and narrow but tells of finding the way back through faith, fixing his hope on a home far away — the promised rest of heaven.
The song suits the close, mournful harmony for which the Stanley Brothers were known.
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