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I Was Young When I Left Home / 500 Miles Lyrics by The Lost Shores

Music for Highways and Bedrooms

2014

I was young when I left home
And I been out a ramblin' round
And I never wrote a letter to my home
It was just the other day
I was drinkin' on my pay
When I met an old friend I used to know
He said "your mother's dead and gone ---
Your 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
Lord I can't go home this old way
This old way, lord
Lord this old way
Lord I can't go home this old way
I used to tell my mom sometimes
When I'd see them flying 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
But I don't like it in the wind
I wanna come back home again
Gonna make me a home out in the wind
So when I pay the debt I owe
To the commissary store
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
I'll go home, lord
Lord, I'll go home
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
If you miss the train I'm on
Count the days I'm gone
You can hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles, pretty baby
Lord, lord, lord
You can hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
So, I was young when I left home
And I been out a ramblin' round
And I never wrote a letter to my home
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The Lost Shores

The Lost Shores

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