I Was Young When I Left Home chords by Montgomery Church

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I
was young when I left home
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But I've been out ramblin' round
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But I never wrote a letter to my home
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To my home, Lord, Lord, to my home
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No, I nev er wrote a letter to my home
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It was just the other day,
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I was bringing on my pain
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When I met an old friend I used to know
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Said your mama's dead and gone
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Your baby sister's all gone wrong
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And your daddy needs
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you home right away
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Not a shirt on my back
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Not a penny to my name
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Lord, I can 't go on this way
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This way, Lord Lord, Lord, Lord
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No, I can 't go on this way
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If you miss the train I'm on
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It won't be long before I'm home
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You can hear that whistle
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blow a hundred miles
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A hundred miles, honey babe,
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Lord, Lord, Lord
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You will hear that whistle blow
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a hundred miles
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And when I'm playing on the track
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Mine would come and call me back
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By them trestles down by old Jim McHale's
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And when I pay the debt I owe
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To the commissary's store
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I will put on my watch and chain
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And go home
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Go       home, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
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I will pawn my watch and chain and go
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home
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I was young when I left home,
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but I've been out ramblin' round
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But I nev er wrote a letter to my home
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To my home, Lord Lord to my home
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No, I nev er wrote a letter to my home
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To my home, Lord Lord, to my home
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No, I nev er wrote a letter to my home