I was young when i left home An´ I been out a-ramblin´ round An´ I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, lord, to my home An´ I never wrote a letter to my home.
It was just the other day I was bringin´ home my pay When i met an´ old friend i used to know Said, "Your mother is dead an´ gone An´ your sisters all gone wrong An´ your daddy needs you home right away.´´
Not a shirt on my back Not a penny on my name But I can´t go home this a-way This a-way, lord, this a-way An´ I can´t go home this a-way.
If you miss the train I´m on Count the days I´m gone You will hear that whistle blow hundred miles Hundred miles, honey baby, lord, lord, lord
An´ you´ll hear that whistle blow hundred miles.
An´ I´m playin´ on a track, ma´d come an´ woop me back On them trusses down by Ol´ Jim McKay´s When I pay the debt i own to the commissary store I will pawn my watch an´ chain an´ go home Go home, lord, lord, lord I will pawn my watch an´ chain an´ go home.
Used to tell my ma sometimes When I see them ridin´ blind Gonna make me a home out in the wind In the wind, lord in the wind Make me a home out in the wind.
I don´t like it in the wind I go back home again
But i can´t go home this a-way This a-way, lord, lord, lord An´ i can go home this a-way.
I was young when i left home An´ I been out a-ramblin´ round An´ I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, lord, to my home An´ I never wrote a letter to my home.