Antony & Bryce Dessner - I Was Young When I Left Home текст песни

I was young when I left home
And I've been a-rambling round
And I never wrote a letter to my home
To my home, Lord, Lord, to my home
And I never wrote a letter to my home

And 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
And baby sisters 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 this way
This way, Lord, Lord, this way
But I can't go home this way

If you miss the train I'm on, count the days and I'm gone
You will hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles, honey baby, Lord, Lord, Lord
And you'll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

And I'm playing on a track, ma would come and whoop my 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 my ma sometimes
When I see them riding blind
Gonna make me a home out in the wind
In the wind, Lord, Lord, in the wind
Gonna make me a home out in the wind

I don't like it in the wind
Would go back home again
But I can't go home this way
This way, Lord, Lord, this way
No, I can't go home this way

I was young when I left home
And I've been a-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