[ti:Last Of The Hobo Kings (Album Version)]
[ar:Mary Gauthier]
[al:Between Daylight And Dark]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:00.00]Last Of The Hobo Kings (Album Version) - Mary Gauthier
[00:19.52]Written by：Mary Gauthi
[00:39.04]Steam Train Maury died last night
[00:41.64]His wife Wanda by his side
[00:43.95]
[00:45.32]He caught the Westbound out of here
[00:47.80]Hopped the high irons to the by and by
[00:50.60]
[00:51.29]They say he jumped ten thousand trains
[00:53.69]Rode a million miles for free
[00:55.78]
[00:57.21]Helped out at VA hospitals and penitentiarys
[01:02.37]
[01:03.21]Dandy Dave Rusty Nails and Sweet Lady Sugar Cane
[01:07.50]
[01:08.91]Dead Eye Kate and the Baloney Kid
[01:11.32]Raise their cups tonight in Steam Trains name
[01:15.04]Senators congressmen puppets on a string
[01:19.41]
[01:20.79]Among the windswept vagabonds Steam Train was the king
[01:25.53]
[01:26.30]The last
[01:27.51]
[01:31.37]Of the hobo kings
[01:33.08]
[01:37.98]The last
[01:39.40]
[01:43.14]Of the hobo kings
[01:45.11]
[02:12.84]Now bums just drink and wander round
[02:15.74]Tramps dream and wander too
[02:17.67]
[02:18.61]But a hobo was a pioneer who preferred to work for food
[02:23.47]
[02:24.14]He knew how his nation was doing
[02:26.38]By the length of a side walk cigarette butt
[02:29.40]
[02:30.75]Born with an aching wanderlust
[02:32.86]Embedded in his gut
[02:35.19]
[02:36.30]Hounded beaten laughed at broke
[02:38.69]Chased out of every town
[02:40.79]
[02:41.55]With a walking stick scepter
[02:44.42]And a shredded coffee can crown
[02:47.35]The last
[02:48.42]
[02:52.22]Of the hobo kings
[02:54.34]
[02:58.47]He was the last
[02:59.93]
[03:04.21]Of the hobo kings
[03:05.48]
[03:33.84]The last free men are hoboes
[03:36.08]Steinbeck said and he paid cash
[03:38.71]
[03:39.24]And the stories that he bought from them
[03:41.96]Helped write the Grapes of Wrath
[03:44.08]
[03:45.06]But boxcars have been sealed for years
[03:47.85]And trespassers do time
[03:50.29]
[03:51.25]And the railroad yards are razor wired
[03:53.66]And hoboing's a crime
[03:55.67]
[03:56.26]So here's to you Steam Train Maury
[03:58.58]
[03:59.70]Hold that Westbound tight
[04:01.37]
[04:02.19]As you ride off into history
[04:04.10]
[04:04.62]The last hobo the last ride
[04:07.75]The last
[04:08.88]
[04:12.94]Of the hobo kings
[04:14.73]
[04:18.59]He was the last
[04:20.10]
[04:24.28]Of the hobo kings