Two Dollar Bill

Chords you’ll need to know

C D G

Jam-Along Backing Track

Lyrics

Lost all my money but a two dollar bill Two dollar bill boys, two dollar bill Lost all my money but a two dollar bill I'm on my long journey home Cloudy in the West and it looks like rain Looks like rain, boys, looks like rain Cloudy in the West and it looks like rain I'm on my long journey home It's dark and a raining and I want to go home Want to go home, boys, want to go home Its dark and a raining and I want to go home I'm on my long journey home Homesick and lonesome and I'm feeling kind of blue Feeling kind of blue, boys, feeling kind of blue Homesick and lonesome and I'm feeling kind of blue I'm on my long journey home There's black smoke a rising and it surely is a train Surely is a train boys, surely is a train There's black smoke a rising and it surely is a train I'm on my long journey home

About This Song

Two Dollar Bill (Long Journey Home) is a traditional song with no known author. The first known recording is by the Monroe Brothers. As "My Long Journey Home," it was the first song Charlie and Bill Monroe recorded at their first session in February 1936, and it was released that June. It has the same tune as the Carter Family's "Worried Man Blues" and the gospel song "Do Lord, Remember Me." Recorded versions of those go back to the mid 1920s.

The song has been recorded under several titles. Many players also know it from Doc Watson, who played it throughout his career.

Year	Artist	Notes
1936	Monroe Brothers
1961	New Lost City Ramblers
1963	Rose Maddox
1964	Flatt & Scruggs	As "Lost All My Money"
1966	Stanley Brothers	Released under the name John's Country Quartet
1967	Doc Watson	Live, with Clint Howard and Fred Price
1968	Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys	As "Long Journey Home"