"Only A Hobo" lyrics
(originally by Bob Dylan)
As I was out walkin' on the corner one day
I spied an old hobo, in the doorway he lay
His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
And I guess he'd been dead for the whole night or more
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
A blanket of newspaper covered his head
As a step was his pillow, the street was his bed
One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come
And a fist full of coin showed the money he bummed
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Does it take much of a man to see his whole life go down?
To look up at the world from a hole in the ground?
To wait for your future like a horse that's gone lame?
To lie in the gutter and die with no name?
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
I spied an old hobo, in the doorway he lay
His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
And I guess he'd been dead for the whole night or more
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
A blanket of newspaper covered his head
As a step was his pillow, the street was his bed
One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come
And a fist full of coin showed the money he bummed
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Does it take much of a man to see his whole life go down?
To look up at the world from a hole in the ground?
To wait for your future like a horse that's gone lame?
To lie in the gutter and die with no name?
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
