I Ain't Got No Home

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Woody Guthrie, 1938. Springsteen version recorded for Folkways: A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly in 1988.

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Credits

• Folkways: A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly (Compilation, 1988)
  • Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitar
  • Roy Bittan: organ
  • Nils Lofgren: guitar

Performances

Performed live 5 times (not including snippet performances). 2012-03-15 Moody Theater, Austin, TX 2009-03-23 Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ 1993-06-24 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ 1993-03-23 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ 1988-09-23 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA

Performances broken down by tour (not including rehearsals and snippet performances) Performed at 0 show(s) of 127 on the 2023-25 International Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 266 on the Springsteen On Broadway run. Performed at 0 show(s) of 14 on the Summer '17 Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 75 on the The River Tour 2016. Performed at 0 show(s) of 33 on the High Hopes Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 133 on the Wrecking Ball Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 83 on the Working On A Dream Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 99 on the Magic Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 56 on The Seeger Sessions Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 72 on the Devils & Dust Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 7 on the Vote For Change Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 120 on The Rising Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 132 on The Reunion Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 128 on The Ghost Of Tom Joad Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 102 on the World Tour 1992-93. Performed at 1 show(s) of 20 on the Human Rights Now! Tour. Performed at 3 known other show(s), plus 1 public tour rehearsal(s).

Snippets

^{Performed live 1 times as a snippet.}

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• 2009-07-14 Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland

Released on Album

Released on Folkways: A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly (Compilation, 1988) and in an alternate version in connection with the PBS documentary.

Released as Live Download

Live versions are available on the following 1 official live downloads:

• 1993-06-24 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ

On The Tracks

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."

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^{Studio Sessions: Human Touch}

Lyrics

I Ain't Got No Home

I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' 'round
I work when I can get it, I roam from town to town
Police make it hard, boys, wherever I may go
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

I was farmin' shares and always I was down
My debts they was so many, ma, they wouldn't go around
The drought it got my crop and Mr. Banker's at my door
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Six children I have raised, they're scattered and they're gone
And my darling wife to heaven she has flown
She died of the fever, yes, on the cabin floor
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn
I been workin' mister since the day that I was born
I worry all the time like I never did before
'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Well now 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

Well, I'm stranded on this road that goes from sea to sea
A hundred thousand others are stranded here with me
A hundred thousand others, yes, and a hundred thousand more
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Yee, ooh, ah ah, woo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Woo, ooh, hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hoo
Hee hee hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Hee hoo hoo hoo hoo ha, hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Yee, ooh, ooh ooh, ooh, woo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Hee, woo ooh ah, hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Hee hee, hoo hoo hoo

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I Ain't Got No Home (Live Version) February 1988

I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' 'round
I work when I can get it, I roam from town to town
Police make it hard, boys, wherever I may go
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Six children I have raised, they're scattered and they're gone
And my darling wife to heaven she has flown
She died of the fever, yes, on the cabin floor
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn
I been workin' mister since the day that I was born
Now I worry all the time like I never did before
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

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

Well, I'm stranded on this road that goes from sea to sea
A hundred thousand others are stranded here with me
A hundred thousand others, yes, and a hundred thousand more
I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Woo ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

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