You're My Home

Infobox Single
Name = You're My Home


Artist = Billy Joel
from album = Piano Man
A-side = Piano Man
Released = 1973
Format = 45 rpm single
Recorded = September 1973, Los Angeles
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 3:14
Key =
Writer = Billy Joel
Producer = Michael Stewart
Certification = Gold (RIAA)
Last single = -
This single = "Piano Man" (1973)
Next single = "Worse Comes To Worst" (1974)
Misc =Extra tracklisting
Album = Piano Man
Type = studio
prev_track = "Ain't No Crime"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "You're My Home"
track_no = 4
next_track = "The Ballad of Billy the Kid"
next_no = 5

"You're My Home" was originally on Billy Joel's 1973 "Piano Man" album. It also appears on the " Songs in the Attic "(1981), "The Essential Billy Joel" (2001) and " 12 Gardens Live " (2006).The song appears as a B-side on "Piano Man" and "All My Life" singles. The song was also covered by Helen Reddy on her album Love Song for Jeffrey, which was released as the flipside of her Keep On Singing single.

The song was written for his wife and business manager Elizabeth Weber because he could not afford anything while in California. They went to California hoping to get out from Artie Ripp's contact and the problems with his first solo album "Cold Spring Harbor" (1971). [Billy Joel; from a book read in the 1980s — find citation]

As Joel says in the liner notes of Songs in the Attic, "Corny but true; I was broke at the time ('73) so I wrote this for my wife as a Valentine's Day gift"cite album-notes |title=Songs in the Attic |bandname=Billy Joel |year=1981 |first=Billy |last=Joel |format=LP|publisher=Columbia Records |publisherid=TC 37461 |location=New York]

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