I'm Going Home (Two Long Years)

DESCRIPTION: "Two long years have I been a-drivin'.... I'll hang my hammer upon the wall. I'm a-goin' home, I'm a-goin' home, I'm a-goin' home, Lord, I'm gonna leave these hills."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: home return
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 747, "I'm Going Home" (1 short text, 1 tune)
NOTES [28 words]: The current description is all of the Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 fragment, which Schinhan says was very difficult to transcribe and incomplete. - RBW
Last updated in version 4.1
File: BrS5747

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