Only a Hobo (Witmark Demo - 1963) - Bob Dylan
Written by:Bob Dylan
As I was out walking on a corner one day
I spied an old hobo in a doorway he lay
His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
And I guess he'd been there for the whole night
Or more
Only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
Only a hobo but one more is gone
A blanket of newspaper covered his head
As the curb was his pillow the street was his
Bed
One look at his face showed the hard road he'd
Come
And a fistful of coins showed the money he bummed
His only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
And leavin' nobody to carry him home
Only a hobo but one more is gone
Does it take much of a man to see his
Whole life go down
To look up on the world from a hole in
The ground
To wait for your future like a horse that's gone
Lame
To lie in the gutter and die with no name
It's only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
Only a hobo but one more is gone
[00:00.00]Only a Hobo (Witmark Demo - 1963) - Bob Dylan
[00:02.16]Written by:Bob Dylan
[00:04.32]As I was out walking on a corner one day
[00:08.05]I spied an old hobo in a doorway he lay
[00:12.84]His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
[00:16.42]And I guess he'd been there for the whole night
[00:19.20]Or more
[00:23.15]Only a hobo but one more is gone
[00:27.13]Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
[00:31.69]Leavin' nobody to carry him home
[00:35.76]Only a hobo but one more is gone
[00:44.46]A blanket of newspaper covered his head
[00:48.38]As the curb was his pillow the street was his
[00:51.29]Bed
[00:53.25]One look at his face showed the hard road he'd
[00:56.15]Come
[00:57.03]And a fistful of coins showed the money he bummed
[01:01.98]His only a hobo but one more is gone
[01:06.11]Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
[01:10.53]And leavin' nobody to carry him home
[01:14.61]Only a hobo but one more is gone
[01:36.32]Does it take much of a man to see his
[01:39.18]Whole life go down
[01:41.33]To look up on the world from a hole in
[01:44.67]The ground
[01:46.67]To wait for your future like a horse that's gone
[01:49.61]Lame
[01:50.57]To lie in the gutter and die with no name
[01:55.24]It's only a hobo but one more is gone
[01:59.13]Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
[02:04.28]Leavin' nobody to carry him home
[02:08.08]Only a hobo but one more is gone