As I was out walkin' on the 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 been dead 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
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
Only a hobo but one more is gone
A blanket of newspaper covered his head
As the step was his pillow, and the street was his bed
One look at his face showed the hard road he"d come
A fistful of coins showed the money he b**med.
Yeah, he was only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
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 in 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 an' die with no name.
He was only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
Only a hobo but one more is gone
I spied an old hobo in a doorway he lay
His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
And I guess he been dead 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
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
Only a hobo but one more is gone
A blanket of newspaper covered his head
As the step was his pillow, and the street was his bed
One look at his face showed the hard road he"d come
A fistful of coins showed the money he b**med.
Yeah, he was only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
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 in 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 an' die with no name.
He was only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
Only a hobo but one more is gone