Hobo's Prayer chords by Marty Stuart
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Under bridges,
beneath trestles in the boxcars of dead trains
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Livin' to beat the cold of
the pouring driving rain
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A silent society moves out in the night
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Ragged rebels,
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homeless hobos and those like me who've lost the light
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Verse 2
St. Peter is a prophet to all the hobo world
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An expert on everything from caviar to girls
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I met him west of Memphis
on the eighth of July
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He handed me a can of beans
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and a rusty knife
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And he said "Everything out here
Verse 3
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ain't what it seems
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And when you're down to nothing,
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just go ahead and dream
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Face the fact that you're circle
in a world full of squares
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Trading sorrows for tomorrows,
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now that's the hobo's prayer"
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Mother Mary is a lady from
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down in New Orleans
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She's seen a lot of living
since she was seventeen
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She said, "I'm bona fide and worldly wise,
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with original parts
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'Cept for what set me to traveling,
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I'm talking about my heart"
Verse 5
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She said, "I can spot a broken
heart from twenty miles away
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So are you passing through or
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have you come to stay
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You're running from a woman"
she said with a grin
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"So what've you got to say" and I said,
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"I am a pilgrim"
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Where everything out here
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ain't
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what it seems
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When I'm down to nothing,
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I just go ahead and dream
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And face the fact that I'm a circle
in a world full of squares
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Trading sorrows for tomorrows,
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that's the hobo's prayer
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Trading sorrows for tomorrows,
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that's the hobo's prayer
Outro 1
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Hobo's Prayer
Marty Stuart
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