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ADD: I Ain't Got No Home in This World (Guthrie) DigiTrad: I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE I CAN'T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE Related threads: what do you think....I Ain't Got No Home rewrite (18) Origins: This World Is Not My Home (30)
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Subject: ADD: I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie) From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Jan 17 - 02:58 AM Here are the lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Website, http://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/I_Aint_Got_No_Home.htm I AIN'T GOT NO HOME (Words and Music by Woody Guthrie) 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. 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 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. © Copyright 1961 (renewed) and 1963 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI) |
Subject: RE: I Ain't Got No Home - Guthrie From: Suffet Date: 02 Aug 01 - 10:00 AM Three footnotes: 1. Guthriewrote "I Ain't Got No Home" to the tune of "I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore," a hymn recorded by the Carter Family. 2. Guthrie parodied his own song with "I Can't Feel At Home On the Bowery Anymore," written after he was the house guest of Will and Herta Geer in their 5th Avenue apartment in New York City. 3. You might try this verse in lieu of one of Guthrie's: My brothers and my sisters are sinking in a hole, That does wonders for the pocketbook but is murder on the soul, And since I have decided I will not be a whore, I ain't got no home in this world anymore. [New words by Stepjen L. Suffet © 1978, 2001.] --- Steve |
Subject: RE: I Ain't Got No Home - Guthrie From: Greg F. Date: 01 Aug 01 - 06:29 PM Oops! As the saying goes, CLICK HERE Probably would have noticed it more easily if the title was mentioned :-) Best, Greg |
Subject: RE: I Ain't Got No Home - Guthrie From: GUEST,djh Date: 01 Aug 01 - 02:38 PM Greg, I started a thread about this song just last week. I rewrote a updated version of it and I wanted to see if messing with Woodrow was gonna bother folks. Everyone correctly saw it as in the spirit in which Woody himself always worked.I posted my version to the thread. The thread was titled "What do you think....." , I'd put a blue clicky here if I knew how. |
Subject: RE: I Ain't Got No Home - Guthrie From: John Kidder Date: 01 Aug 01 - 02:01 PM GregF: Just thought I'd mention that I played both "East Texas Red" and "I Ain't Got No Home" at the Jericho (Vancouver) Folk CLub last night. Well received, confirmation that our folklore has always been transnational, well before Coca-Cola and the WTO. John |
Subject: Lyr Add: I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE From: Greg F. Date: 30 Jul 01 - 03:25 PM Well, I messed this up in the first place, so here's a new thread to make ammends :-)
**************** Subject: RE: East Texas Red
"I Ain't Got No Home" is one of my favorites, too, and I'm surprised it doesn't get more "play". I've heard lots of different versions(includint the one in the DT), so thought I'd post the lyrics from the paperback book mentioned above, just as a point of reference. Probably should have posted this under its own title, so excuse the "thread creep".
Best, Greg
I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE
I ain't got no home, I'm just a-ramblin' round
I was farmin' on the shares, and always I was poor
Now as I look around its mighty plain to see
Subject: RE: East Texas Red
This should probably be a different thread, but what the hell. I sing
My brothers and my sisters are stranded on this road
Is this not an original verse? If not, where did it come from?
johnk |
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