Written by Woody Guthrie to the tune “This World is not My Home”
(See Manfred Helfert's site for details: http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/iaint.html)
Performed by Bob Dylan and The Band at the Woody Guthrie tribute
concert, Carnegie Hall, NY, Jan 20, 1968.
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
The chorus is a cappella – the chords indicate which harmonies they sing.
The guitar part is probably played with a capo on the 5th fret (see below).
C F C
I ain't got no home, I'm just a-ramblin' 'round,
C D G
A hard working ramblin' man, and I go from town to town.
C F
police make it hard wherever I may go
C G C
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
[C F C F C] I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
I was farmin' on the shares, always I was poor; My crops I'd lay away into the banker's store. My wife she 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 in this world anymore.
I ain't got no home, I'm just a-ramblin' 'round, A hard working ramblin' man, and I go from town to town. police make it hard wherever I may go And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
Well, as I look around, it's mighty plain to see This wide open world, she's a funny old place to be; The gamblin' man is rich, the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
[ B-C] I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
Additional verse, not sung by Dylan:
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.
G C G
I ain't got no home, I'm just a-ramblin' 'round,
G A D
A hard working ramblin' man, and I go from town to town.
G C
police make it hard wherever I may go
G D G
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
[G C G C G] I ain't got no home in this world anymore.