I AIN'T GOT NO HOME

a.k.a. I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD

Woody Guthrie version

I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around
A hard working ramblin' man, I go 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' on the shares and always I was poor
My crops I laid into the banker's door
And my wife took down and died upon the cabin floor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around
A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town
The police make it hard wherever I may go
And I Ain't Got No Home in this world anymore

Now as I look around it's mighty plain to 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

Written by Woodie Guthrie. Published on the Woodie Guthrie tribute LP, played once in a Human Rights Now! show (on 23 Sep 1988, Oakland, CA) and twice during the Human Touch tour, both in New Jersey (on 23 Mar 1993 and on 24 Jun 1993). Folkways version also exists.