Key: F major
Verse 1
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Oh, listen to the song of the hobo
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A -riding on the eastbound train
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Amid the cinders fly ing
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from the old smokestack
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Oh, listen to the sweet refrain
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We're just a jolly bunch of hobos,
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No money, not a job, can we find.
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We're just a -goin' a little
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farther down the line.
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Some folks say we have no worries,
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No taxes, gas, or coal bills to pay.
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We get our heat and gas
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from the old smokestack,
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As the old train is rattling on her way.
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Now we never stop to worry,
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The engineer's watching the line.
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All we gotta do is watch the Mountie,
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But we don't have much
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trouble getting off in time.
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glistening in the sunshine,
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And at his belt is hung
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a bunch of hobos,
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Because depression made
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us all go on the bum.
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They say it's nice for us to
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make new acquaintances
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Many times we're
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Fourteen days in jail for riding on the rail
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And then we all get thrown in the jug
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Do the police ever stop to consider
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That we are helping them hold their jobs?
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keeping us all on the run,
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They'd all be with us riding on the run.
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But now, folks, you've heard our story
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The cops are a -headin' down our way
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Now I wonder where they think
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We're a jolly bunch of hobos
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No money, not a job, can we find
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We're just a -goin' a little
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farther down the line
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