TRACK TALK #368 Only a Hobo

ONLY A HOBO
ALBUM : The Bootleg Series Vol.1 (1991) / The Bootleg Series Vol.10 (2013)
Recorded : 12 Août 1963 / 1er Septembre 1971
Released : 26 Mars 1991 / 27 Août 2013

Enregistré pour les sessions de "The Times They Are A-Changin'" en 1963.
Nouvelle version enregistrée pour le "Greatest Hits Vol.2" en 1971.
Unique performance live : New York (12 Avril 1963)



Lyrics
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

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

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?

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

Très Woody Guthrie, celle-là.
Très bonne aussi, comme les 4,5/5ème du Bootleg Series 1 de toutes façons.

JeffreyLeePierre a écrit:

Très Woody Guthrie, celle-là.
Très bonne aussi, comme les 4,5/5ème du Bootleg Series 1 de toutes façons.

Oui. Même si, pour être honnête, je lui préfère la version country du "Bootleg Vol.10" (peut-être bien mon bootleg favori en même temps).