Intro
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[Verse 1]
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I was young when I left home
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But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round
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And I never wrote a letter to my home
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To my home
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Lord, to my home
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And I never wrote a letter to my home
[Verse 2]
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It was just the other day
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I was bringing home my pay
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When I met an old friend I used to know
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Said your mother’s dead and gone
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Baby sister’s all gone wrong
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And your daddy needs you home right away
[Verse 3]
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Not a shirt on my back
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Not a penny on my name
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Well I can’t go home this-a-way
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This-a-way
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Lord, Lord, Lord
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And I can’t go home this-a-way
[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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If you miss the train I’m on
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Count the days I’m gone
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You will hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
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B hundred miles, honey baby
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Lord Lord Lord
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And you’ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
[Verse 5]
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I’m playing on a track
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Ma would come and whoop me back
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On them trestles down by old Jim McKay’s
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When I pay the debt I owe
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To the commissary store
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I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
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Go home
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Lord Lord Lord
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I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
[Interlude]
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[Verse 6]
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Used to tell Ma sometimes
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When I see them riding blinds
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Gonna make me a home out in the wind
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In the wind
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Lord in the wind
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Make me a home out in the wind
[Verse 7]
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I don’t like it in the wind
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Wanna go back home again
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But I can’t go home this-a-way
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This-a-way
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Lord Lord Lord
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And I can’t go home this-a-way
[Interlude]
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[Verse 8]
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I was young when I left home
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But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round
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And I never wrote a letter to my home
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To my home
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Lord Lord Lord
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And I never wrote a letter to my home
[Coda]
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