Woody Guthrie- 'I Ain't Got No Home' (In This World Anymore), And Rosanne Cash Version

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- From His Record "Dust Bowl Ballads" 1940.

Bio. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie b. July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma. He was the 2nd-born son of Charles & Nora Belle Guthrie. His father- a cowboy, land speculator, & local politician- taught Woody Western songs, Indian songs, & Scottish folk tunes. His Kansas-born mother, also musically inclined, had an equally profound effect on him. Slightly built, with an extremely full & curly head of hair, Woody was a precocious & unconventional boy from the start.

Always a keen observer of the world around him, the people, music & landscape he was exposed to made lasting impressions on him. During his early years in Oklahoma, Woody experienced the 1st of a series of immensely tragic personal losses. With the accidental death of his older sister Clara, the family's financial ruin, & the institutionalization & eventual loss of his mother, Woody's family & home life was forever devastated. In 1920, oil was discovered nearby & overnight Okemah was transformed into an "oil boom" town... Official website, https://www.woodyguthrie.org/index.htm "Woody lives and I'm glad" - John Lennon

- Rosanne Cash - Woody Guthrie At 100! - "I Ain't Got No Home." Performing with John Leventhal.

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1. Here's the song its based on:

Carter Family - Can't Feel at Home:

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2. The Carters & Guthrie popularized the song. It was adapted

and altered over the years with varying arrangements and lyrics. The origins of the song likely go back to an earlier hymn. In 1924 the first recording was made and released. This from all the material I've read.

- The World Is Not My Home -

English, Comments: Gospel hymn better known as "Lord Don't You Know I Have No Friend Like You" or "I Can't Feel at Home in This World Anymore".

Albert E. Brumley arranged this work and is therefore often mistakenly credited. He copyrighted his arrangement in 1937.

The refrain goes as follows:
This world is not my home (2x)
This world's a howling wilderness,
This world is not my home"
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This World Is Not My Home
First recording and first release by Stove Pipe No. 1 (Sam Jones) (August 19, 1924 / 1924)

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This World Is Not My Home written by [Traditional] English 1924
This World Is Not My Home written by Warren Defever English May 28, 1996
VERSIONS
This World Is Not My Home written by [Traditional] English

- Title Performer Release date Info

Lord Don't You Know I Have No Friend Li… Stove Pipe No. 1 (Sam Jones) 1924, First recording on August 19, 1924

First release
This World Is Not My Home Golden Echo Quartet 1930
Can't Feel at Home The Carter Family August 1931
The World Is Not My Home Prairie Ramblers May 1935
This World Is Not My Home Monroe Brothers March 25, 1936
I Can't Feel at Home in This World Anym… Alphabetical Four 1941
This World Is Not My Home Blackwood Bros. Quartet 1948
I Can't Feel at Home in the World Anymo… Hank Thompson August 1950
This World Is Not My Home The Carl Smith Trio 1957
This World Is Not My Home Roy Acuff 1958... https://secondhandsongs.com/work/87731/all

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3. 'Ain't Got No Home,' Woody Guthrie version:

- Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie song, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

Not to be confused with Ain't Got No Home (Clarence "Frogman" Henry song).

"Ain't Got No Home" (or 'I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore"') is a song by Woody Guthrie, released on Dust Bowl Ballads, in which the singer laments the difficulties that life presents him.

It was based on a gospel song Guthrie heard on his visits to the migrant camps known variously as "Can't Feel at Home" or 'I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,' which had been made popular by the Carter Family in 1931.

Guthrie wrote his version of the song in response to this version, in an attempt to capture more effectively the "unrelieved anger" of the Dust Bowl refugees. He was outraged by the song's message and the effects it had on the migrants, telling them to wait, and be meek. It was telling them to accept the hovels and the hunger and the disease and to not fight back.

Guthrie's version parodies the original song's fundamentalist religious sentiment that the poor should accept suffering in this world for rewards in the hereafter.

> An unreleased variant of the song protests the segregation at the Beach Haven apartment complex owned by Fred Trump, the father of former United States president Donald Trump, which he stayed at from 1950 to 1952: "Beach Haven looks like heaven / Where no black ones come to roam! / No, no, no! Old Man Trump! / Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!" This is similar in topic to Guthrie's unreleased song "Old Man Trump."...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Got_No_Home_(Woody_Guthrie_song)