Key: Db major
Intro 1
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Bm
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Verse 1
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Under bridges,
beneath trestles in the boxcars of dead trains
Bm
Livin' to beat the cold of
the pouring driving rain
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A silent society moves out in the night
Bm
Ragged rebels,
C
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
Bm
An expert on everything from caviar to girls
D
I met him west of Memphis
on the eighth of July
Bm
He handed me a can of beans
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D
and a rusty knife
F#m
And he said "Everything out here
Verse 3
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D
ain't what it seems
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And when you're down to nothing,
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A
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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Em
Trading sorrows for tomorrows,
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D
now that's the hobo's prayer"
Interlude 1
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Bm
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Bm
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Verse 4
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Mother Mary is a lady from
A
down in New Orleans
D
Bm
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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D
with original parts
Bm
'Cept for what set me to traveling,
C
D
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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Bm
So are you passing through or
G
have you come to stay
D
You're running from a woman"
she said with a grin
Bm
C
"So what've you got to say" and I said,
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"I am a pilgrim"
F#m
Where everything out here
Verse 6
G
ain't
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what it seems
F#m
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When I'm down to nothing,
D
A
I just go ahead and dream
D
And face the fact that I'm a circle
in a world full of squares
F
Em
Trading sorrows for tomorrows,
C
D
that's the hobo's prayer
F
Em
Trading sorrows for tomorrows,
C
D
that's the hobo's prayer
Outro 1
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Bm
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Bm
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