Written by Bob Dylan

Recorded on the Minnesota Hotel Tape (Dec 22, 1961)

Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem





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Open G tuning (DGdgbd')



G 000000

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.



G

I was young when I left home

G' D C

and I been a-rambling 'round.

D

And I never wrote a letter to my home.

G G' D C

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