"Only A Hobo" lyrics - BOB DYLAN
As I was out walking on a corner one day,
I spied an old hobo, in a doorway he lay.
His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
And I guess he'd been there for the whole night or more.
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
A blanket of newspaper covered his head,
As the curb was his pillow, the street was his bed.
One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come
And a fistful of coins showed the money he bummed.
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
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 on 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?
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (1991)
- Hard Times In New York Town
- He Was A Friend Of Mine
- Man On The Street
- No More Auction Block
- House Carpenter
- Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
- Let Me Die In My Footsteps
- Rambling, Gambling Willie
- Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues
- Quit Your Low Down Ways
- Worried Blues
- Kingsport Town
- Walkin' Down The Line
- Walls Of Red Wing
- Paths Of Victory
- Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
- Who Killed Davey Moore?
- Only A Hobo
- Moonshiner
- When The Ship Comes In
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
- Seven Curses
- Eternal Circle
- Suze (The Cough Song)
- Mama, You Been On My Mind
- Farewell Angelina
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- If You Gotta Go, Go Now
- Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
- Like A Rolling Stone
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- She's Your Lover Now
- I Shall Be Released
- Santa Fe
- If Not For You
- Wallflower
- Nobody 'Cept You
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Call Letter Blues
- Idiot Wind
- If You See Her, Say Hello
- Golden Loom
- Catfish
- Seven Days
- Ye Shall Be Changed
- Every Grain Of Sand
- You Changed My Life
- Need A Woman
- Angelina
- Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart
- Tell Me
- Lord Protect My Child
- Foot Of Pride
- Blind Willie McTell
- When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
- Series Of Dreams