Only a Hobo

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As I was out walkin' on the corner one day

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I spied an old hobo, in the doorway he lay

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His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor

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An' I guess he'd been there for the whole night or more

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Only a hobo, but one more is gone 

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Leaving nobody to sing his sad song

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Leaving nobody to carry him home  

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He was only a hobo, but one more is gone


A blanket of newspaper covered his head
As the step was his pillow, the street was his bed
One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come
An' a fistful of coins showed the money he'd bummed

He was only a hobo, but one more is gone 
Leaving nobody to sing his sad song
Leaving 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 in the world from a whole 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 
Leaving nobody to sing his sad song
Leaving nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone

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