Hobo's Prayer chords by Marty Stuart
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Intro 1
(C major) (A minor)
(C major)
Verse 1
Under (C major) bridges,
beneath trestles in the boxcars of dead trains
(A minor) Livin' to beat the cold of
the pouring driving rain
A (C major) silent society moves out in the night
Ragged (A minor) rebels,
homeless hobos and those like (B flat major) me who've lost the light
(C major)
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Verse 2
St. Peter is a prophet to all the hobo world
An (A minor) expert on everything from caviar to girls
I (C major) met him west of Memphis
on the eighth of July
He (A minor) handed me a can of beans
(B flat major) and a rusty knife (C major)
And he said (E minor) "Everything out here
Verse 3
(F major)
ain't what it seem (C major) s
And (E minor) when you're down to noth (F major) ing,
just (C major) go ahead and (G major) dream
Face the fact (C major) that you're circle
in a world full of squares
Trading sor (E flat major) rows for tomor (D minor) rows,
now (B flat major) that's the hobo's (C major) prayer"
Interlude 1
(C major) (A minor)
(C major) (A minor) (B flat major)
(C major) (B flat major) (C major)
Verse 4
Mother Mary (C major) is a lady from
down in (G major) New Orleans
(C major) She's (A minor) seen a lot of living
since she was seventeen
She said, "I'm (C major) bona fide and worldly wise,
with origin (G major) al parts (C major)
'Cept for what (A minor) set me to traveling,
I'm (B flat major) talking about my (C major) heart"
Verse 5
(C major)
She said, "I can spot a broken
heart from twenty miles away
(E minor) So (A minor) are you passing through or
have you come to stay (F major)
(C major) You're running from a woman"
she said with a grin
"So (A minor) what've you got to say" and I said, (B flat major)
"I am a pil (C major) grim"
Where (E minor) everything out here
Verse 6
(F major) ain't
what it seem (C major) s
(E minor) When I'm down to noth (F major) ing,
I just (C major) go ahead and (G major) dream
And face the fact (C major) that I'm a circle
in a world full of squares
Trading sor (E flat major) rows for tomor (D minor) rows,
(B flat major) that's the hobo's (C major) prayer
Trading sor (E flat major) rows for to (D minor) morrows,
(B flat major) that's the hobo's (C major) prayer
Outro 1
(C major) (A minor) (C major)
(A minor) (B flat major) (C major) (B flat major) (C major)
(B flat major) (C major) (B flat major) (C major)
Hobo's Prayer
Marty Stuart
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