The Man Who Wrote 'Home Sweet Home' Never Was A Married Man

Recordings

The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 3, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1961
Songs Of The Tobacco Tags, Vol. 1, Tobacco Tags, 1984
Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright, 19??
You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music, Various Artists (Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright), 2005

Notes

Played by Jerry and Sarah Garcia at the Tangent in Palo Alto in May 1963.

Garcia introduces this song by saying, "We got married last week sometime, this song is fitting for the occasion." The lyrics of the version on the Jerry and Sarah Garcia tape are as follows;

Man comes home from work at night, hungry and he wants to eat
His wife is lying piled in the bed, lying there sound asleep
He gets so mad that he tears his hair, swears and declares that he won't stay there.

And the man that wrote the Home Sweet Home never was a married man
He never had no loving wife to greet him with a frying pan
She'll meet you at the door when you go to come in and knock you down with a rolling pin
And the man that wrote the Home Sweet Home never was a married man.

A man comes home from work at night tired and he goes to bed
Baby's lying there in the cradle screaming loud enough to wake the dead
He sits and rocks for about an hour with never a hand to help prepare.

And the man that wrote the Home Sweet Home never was a married man
He never had no loving wife to greet him with a frying pan
She'll meet you at the door when you go to come in and knock you down with a rolling pin
And the man that wrote the Home Sweet Home never was a married man.