| I AIN'T GOT NO HOME - V1 | 3:40 | COMP: FOLKWAYS / BACK |
| I AIN'T GOT NO HOME - V2 | 3:12 | COMP: FOLKWAYS |
Note: Written by Woody Guthrie in the fall of 1938 and recorded by him on April 26, 1940 for Victor Records in New York City. Harold Leventhal, Guthrie's long-time business manager, broke into folk music after meeting Pete Seeger in 1948, was the man behind the project Folkways: A Vision Shared, a tribute to Guthrie and Lead Belly. Bruce Springsteen was one of the first artists to join the project. He recorded two Woody Guthrie songs for the tribute album, "I Ain’t Got No Home" and "Vigilante Man", between the completion of Tunnel Of Love and the end of the Tunnel Of Love Express Tour rehearsals. This song features Bruce on guitar and vocals, Roy Bittan on organ, and Nils Lofgren on guitar. Bruce changed the lyrics, making the song both more modern and more inclusive. A second, shorter version circulates, taken from the DVD video shot during a soundcheck on May 19, 1988 at Madison Square Garden, released on A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly home video. Bruce didn't sing Woody's last verse, so his final verse was, "I just ramble 'round to see what I can see, this wide wicked world is sure a funny place to be / The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor, I ain't got no home in this world anymore."