I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around

Work when I can get it, I roam from town to town

The police make it hard wherever I may go

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore



I was farmin' shares and always I was done

My debts they was so many they wouldn't go around

Drought got my crops and Mr. Banker's at my door

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore



Six children I have raised, they're scattered and they're gone

And my darling wife to heaven she has flown

She died of the fever 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 workin' mister since the day that I was born

I worry all the time like I never did before

Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore



Now I just ramble around to see what I can see

This wide wicked world is a funny place to be

The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore



I'm stranded on this road that goes from sea to sea

A hundred thousand others are stranded here with me

A hundred thousand others and a hundred thousand more

I ain't got no home in this world anymore