Bob Dylan – I Was Young When I Left Home (Ukulele)
Capo 1
Key
-
Versions
(4)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
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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
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CHORDS
g-C-E-A
G 0-2-3-2
Cadd9 0-2-0-3
D7sus4 2-0-3-0---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Intro]
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[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]
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[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]
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[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]
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[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]
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