I Was Young When I Left Home lyrics

Written by Bob Dylan
Recorded on the Minnesota Hotel Tape (Dec 22, 1961)
Tabbed by Eyolf strem


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Open G tuning (DGdgbd`)

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G` 000430
D 000210
C 002010

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I sorta made it up on a train. Huh, oh I`m here. This must be good for somebody, this sad song. I know it`s good for somebody. If it ain`t for me, it`s good for somebody. I just talked about it, huh huh.

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I was young when I left home
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and I been a-rambling `round.
D
And I never wrote a letter to my home.
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To my home, lord to my home.
D G
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 thisaway.
Thisaway, lord lord lord.
And I can`t go home thisaway.

If you miss the train I`m on,
count the days I`m gone.
You will hear that whistle blow a hundred miles.
Hundred miles, honey baby, lord lord lord,
and you`ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles.

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 in the wind.
Make me a home out in the wind.

I don`t like it in the wind,
I go back home again,
but I can`t go home thisaway.
Thisaway, lord lord lord,
and I can`t go home thisaway.

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.