Rambling Round: Lyrics

Woody Guthrie, Hudie Ledbetter, Alan Lomax

• LP Legendary Cisco Houston

I've rambled round your city
I've rambled round your towns
I never see a friend I know
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round

My sweetheart and my family
I left in my old home town
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round

The fruit trees they are loaded
They're bending to the ground
I pick 'em all day for a dollar, boys
As I go ramblin' round
As I go ramblin' round

Sometimes the fruit gets rotten
And falls down on the ground
There's a hungry mouth for every peach
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round

My mother hoped that I would be
A man of some renown
But I am just a refugee
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round

I've rambled round your old cities
And I've rambled round your town
I never see a friend I know
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round

Of note:

The published lyrics say "My father" in verse five, but Cisco sings his mother hoped he'd become a man of some renown. Related to his childhood abandonment?

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