I Was Young When I Left Home

I was young when I left home
to when i been ramblin' round
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

It was just the other day
I was drinking on my pay
when I met an old friend I used to know
Said, "Your mother's dead and gone
Baby sisters all gone wrong
And your daddy needs you home right away"

Not a shirt on my back
not a penny on my name
Oh, I can't go home this a-way
This a-way
lawd lawd lawd
And I can't go home this a-way

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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
lawd lawd lawd
And you'll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

I've playin' on the track
Ma will come and hold me back
On those trestles down by old Jim McKay's
When I pay the debt I owe
to the commissary store
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
go home
lawd lawd lawd
I will pawn the watch and chain and go home

Used to tell 'em all sometimes
When I see them riding blinds
Gonna make me a home out in the wind
In the wind
lawd in the wind
Make me a home out in the wind
I don't like it in the wind
I wanna go back home again
But I can't go home this a-way

This a-way
lawd lawd lawd
And I can't go home this a-way

I was young when I left home
And I've been all ramblin' around
And I never wrote a letter to my home
To my home
lawd lawd lawd
And I've never wrote a letter to my home.