I Was Young When I Left Home – Antony And The Johnsons (feat. Bryce Dessner) (originally by Bob Dylan)
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I was young when I left home And I been a-rambling ’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 bringing home my pay When I met an old friend I used to know Said your mother’s dead and gone Baby sister’s all gone wrong And 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, this way Lord, I can’t go home this way
If you miss the train I’m on Count the days I’m gone You will hear the whistle blow a hundred miles Hundred miles, honey baby, Lord Lord Lord And you’ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
And I’m playing on a track Ma would come and whoop me back On them trussels 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, Lord Lord Lord I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
Used to tell ma sometimes When I see them riding 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 I’m a-go back home again But I can’t go home this way This way, Lord, this way Lord, I can’t go home this way
I was young when I left home And I been all rambling ’round And I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, Lord Lord Lord And I never wrote a letter to my home