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I Was Young When I Left Home​/​500 Miles

from Music For Highways and Bedrooms by The Lost Shores

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I was young when I left home
and I been out a ramblin' round
and I never wrote a letter to my home

It was just the other day
I was drinkin' on my pay
when I met an old friend I used to know

he said "your mother's dead and gone ---
your baby sister's all gone wrong---
and your daddy needs you home right away"

not a shirt on my back
not a penny on my name
lord I can't go home this old way

this old way, lord
lord this old way
lord I can't go home this old way

I used to tell my mom sometimes
when I'd see them flying blind
gonna make me a home out in the wind

in the wind, lord
lord, in the wind
gonna make me a home out in the wind

but I don't like it in the wind
I wanna come back home again
gonna make me a home out in the wind

so when I pay the debt I owe
to the commissary store
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home

I'll go home, lord
lord, I'll go home
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home

If you miss the train I'm on,
count the days I'm gone
you can hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

a hundred miles, pretty baby
lord, lord, lord
you can hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

so, I was young when I left home
and I been out a ramblin' round
and I never wrote a letter to my home

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from Music For Highways and Bedrooms, released April 24, 2013
"I Was Young When I Left Home/500 Miles"
Richard Aufrichtig: Voice, Electric Guitar

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The Lost Shores Brooklyn, New York

The musical project surrounding the songs of Richard Aufrichtig.

"lo-fi troubadour" - Time Out New York

“Fitting snuggly within a loosely defined set of
epic-minded solo troubadours” – The Deli
Magazine

“...the[re is a] radiating sense of inclusion
unique to his performance and
uncharacteristic of the generally cliquey
indie/folksy scene that Brooklyn is known
for.” – YAM Magazine
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