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 (instrumental) 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.