Lyrics
(Folk song)
My daddy is an engineer,
My brother drives a hack,
My sister takes in washin’
And the baby balls the jack,
And it looks like
I’m never gonna cease my wanderin’.
I been a wanderin’
Early and late,
New York City
To the Golden Gate,
And it looks like
I’m never gonna cease my wanderin’
Been a-workin’ in the army
Workin’ on a farm,
All I got to show for it
Is the muscle in my arm
And it looks like
I’m never gonna cease my wanderin’
Snakes in the ocean
Fish in the sea,
Took a red-headed woman
To make a fool outa me,
And it looks like
I’m never gonna cease my wanderin’
See also
- Country: US / Northeast
- Subject: family
- Type: state songs
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm: anacrusis
- Scale: major
- Source: Songs for Pickin’ and Singin’, James F. Leisy, Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1962 / Source: The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
When I was a child, “Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye” had a version of this for the theme song of the radio show. This is as close as I have found. My buddy and I will perform this at a church coffee house when it reconvenes after COVID-19. THANK YOU!