I Was Young When I Left Home
Antony & Bryce Dessner

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, 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 baby sister's 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 way

This way Lord, Lord this way

An' I can't go home this way


If you miss the train I'm on, count the days and 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, Lord in the wind

Gonna make me a home out in the wind


I don't like it in the wind

Wanna go back home again

But I can't go home this way

This way, Lord, Lord this way

But I can't go home this 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, Lord, Lord

An' I never wrote a letter to my home


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