I Was Young When I Left Home

[Chorus]

I was young when I left home

But I been out a-rambling around

And I never wrote a letter to my home

To my home, Lord, to my home

And I never wrote a letter to my home

[Verse 1]

It was just the other day

I was bringing home my pay

When I met an old friend I used to know

[Verse 2]

Said your mother’s dead and gone

Baby sister’s all gone wrong

And your daddy needs you home right away

[Verse 3]

Not a shirt on my back

Not a penny on my name

Well I can’t go home Thisaway

Thisaway, Lord, Lord, Lord

And I can’t go home Thisaway

[Verse 4]

If you miss the train I’m on

Count the days I’m gone

You will hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

A hundred miles, honey baby. Lord Lord Lord

And you’ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

[Verse 5]

I’m playing on a track

Ma would come and whoop me back

On them trestles down by old Jim McKay’s

[Verse 6]

When I pay the debt I owe

To the commissary store

I will pawn my watch and chain and go home

Go home, Lord Lord Lord

I will pawn my watch and chain and go home

[Verse 7]

Used to tell Ma sometimes

When I see them riding blinds

Going to make me a home out in the wind

In the wind, Lord in the wind

Make me a home out in the wind

[Verse 8]

I don’t like it in the wind

Want to go back home again

But I can’t go home Thisaway

Thisaway, Lord Lord Lord

And I can’t go home Thisaway

[Chorus]