The Hobo chords by
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed
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Key: B major•
Verse 1
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On the dark side of Chicago,
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I heard an old lonesome hobo
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As he whistled, Dixie,
it took my mind way back
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To Mama's dear sweet angel smile
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And the tune she sang me as a child
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And how my daddy left us long ago
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On a lonesome northbound track
Well he took a nip and I walked over
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I laid my hand on a thin old shoulder
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And in the moonlight tired old eyes
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Stared me right through
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So I gave him a brand new twenty
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And said friend this ought to be plenty
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To pay for a drink
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F#
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and a memory trip with you
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I said I have a love for Dixie
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Cause she's where I long to be
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And I'll go home to her someday,
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just wait and see
So if you're leaving in the morning
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Well someday I'll be joining
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So would you save a place for me
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B
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G#
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In the heart of Dixie
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They say my old man rode the rails
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So as this hobo spun his tails
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My thoughts drifted off
in a dream with a mystery
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We drank his wine till we
got Shanghai'd
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Slept in a boxcar side by side
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F#
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C#
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Till the morning's light struck my face
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C#
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an d awoke me.
And on the hobo's arm hanging limp,
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the sun's flicker
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gave me a glimpse of something
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that took me by surprise.
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Across a heart tattooed in his skin,
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I saw the name Dixie written there.
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C#
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And it brought a twinkle and
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a tear into my eyes.
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As I thought, we share a love for Dixie
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And she's where we long to be
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And I'll go home to her someday,
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C#
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just wait and see
So if you're leaving in the morning
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Well, someday I'll be joining
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F#
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C#
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Lord, save a place for me
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C#
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In the heart of Dixie
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He said, well, it's about time for my run
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I've got a ride to Montgomery, son
Sir, I replied,
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that's my old stomping ground
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Yeah, he said he'd hung out
there on the Rippon
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Before he left a girl named Dixie
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And that for years now,
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his soul had been Alabama bound
Well, I told him I thought
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I'd known his Dixie,
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but that she died way back in sixty.
They say from loneliness
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and a broken dream.
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And as I said that, he just slipped away,
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but left me thinkin' to this very day
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that Dixie's darling
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was the dad I'd never seen.
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Lord, we shared a love for Dixie,
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now he's where she went to be
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And I'll go home to them someday,
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just wait and see
He left me behind that morning,
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but when my time comes
I'll be joining
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Lord, save a place for me
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Bm
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in the heart of Dixie
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Won't save a place for me
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in the heart of Itsy.

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