Bob Dylan – I Was Young When I Left Home (Ukulele)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan Recorded in 1961 (Minnesota Tape) Released on the Bonus CD of “Love and Theft” (2001) and "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home" (2005) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: soprano C capo: 1st fret play: G key: Ab ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHORDS
        g-C-E-A
G       0-2-3-2
Cadd9   0-2-0-3
D7sus4  2-0-3-0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | G | % | % | Cadd9 | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % | | G | % | [Verse 1]
      G
I was young when I left home

                           Cadd9
But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round

      D7sus4                     D7sus4
And I never wrote a letter to my home

      G
To my home

            Cadd9
Lord, to my home

      D7sus4                     G
And I never wrote a letter to my home
[Verse 2]
       G
It was just the other day

                       Cadd9
I was bringing home my pay

       D7sus4                      D7sus4
When I met an old friend I used to know

          G
Said your mother’s dead and gone

                       Cadd9
Baby sister’s all gone wrong

         D7sus4                      G
And your daddy needs you home right away
[Verse 3]
      G
Not a shirt on my back

                  Cadd9
Not a penny on my name

        D7sus4               D7sus4
Well, I can’t go home this-a-way

       G
This-a-way

            Cadd9
Lord, Lord, Lord

      D7sus4               G
And I can’t go home this-a-way
[Interlude] | G | % | % | Cadd9 | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % | | G | % | [Verse 4]
       G
If you miss the train I’m on

                   Cadd9
Cadd9ount the days I’m gone

         D7sus4                           D7sus4
You will hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

          G
A hundred miles, honey baby

          Cadd9
Lord Lord Lord

           D7sus4                           G
And you’ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
[Verse 5]
    G
I’m playing on a track

                           Cadd9
Ma would come and whoop me back

         D7sus4                    D7sus4
On them trestles down by old Jim McKay’s

       G
When I pay the debt I owe

                  Cadd9
To the commissary store

       D7sus4                         G
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home

   G
Go home

          Cadd9
Lord Lord Lord

       D7sus4                         G
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
[Interlude] | G | % | % | Cadd9 | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % | | G | % | [Verse 6]
        G
Used to tell Ma sometimes

                       Cadd9
When I see them riding blinds

      D7sus4                    D7sus4
Gonna make me a home out in the wind

       G
In the wind

            Cadd9
Lord in the wind

D7sus4                    G
Make me a home out in the wind
[Verse 7]
        G
I don’t like it in the wind

                    Cadd9
Wanna go back home again

      D7sus4               G
But I can’t go home this-a-way

       G
This-a-way

          Cadd9
Lord Lord Lord

      D7sus4               G
And I can’t go home this-a-way
[Interlude] | G | % | % | Cadd9 | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % | | G | % | [Verse 8]
      G
I was young when I left home

                           Cadd9
But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round

      D7sus4                     D7sus4
And I never wrote a letter to my home

      G
To my home

          Cadd9
Lord Lord Lord

      D7sus4                     G
And I never wrote a letter to my home
[Coda] | G | % | % | Cadd9 | % | D7sus4 | % | G | G