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I Ain't Got No Home

I ain't got no home, I'm just a-roamin' 'round,
Just a wandrin' worker, I go from town to town.
And the police make it hard wherever I may go
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

My brothers and my sisters are stranded on this road,
A hot and dusty road that a million feet have trod;
Rich man took my home and drove me from my door
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

Was a-farmin' on the shares, and always I was poor;
My crops I lay into the banker's store.
My wife took down and died upon the cabin floor,
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn
I been working, mister, since the day I was born
Now I worry all the time like I never did before
'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see
This world is such a great and a funny place to be;
Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor,
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

 

Available on:
Dust Bowl Ballads
Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin': Asch Recordings, Volume 3
Woody Guthrie
Folkways: The Original Vision
Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly

Woodeye
Joel Rafael

Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
© Copyright 1961 (renewed) and 1963 (renewed) by TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc.

Contact The Publisher
The Richmond Organization (TRO)
(includes Ludlow Music, Folkways Music, Hollis Music)
266 West 37th Street, 17th Floor / New York, NY 10018-6609
Email: info@songways.com

 


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