I Ain't Got No Home, song lyrics
 Song: I Ain't Got No Home(1)
Lyrics: Woody Guthrie(2)
Music: Traditional
Year: 1938
Genre: Folk
Country: USA
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.
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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
This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net
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.
Notes:
1 - This is Woody Guthrie's parody to the popular Baptist hymn called This World Is Not My Home.
2 - Woody Guthrie biography.
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