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Subject: Hobo Bill ???s Last Ride by Jimmy Rodgers
Hobo Bill???s Last Ride Words and music by MacWilliams and Rodgers
Recorded by Hank Snow / Jimmie Rodgers / Merle Haggard
Submitted by Bruce Mackay
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Riding on an East-bound freight train, speeding thru the night
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Hobo Bill, a railroad bum, was fighting for his life...
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The sadness of his eyes revealed the torture of his soul
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He raised a weak and weary hand to brush away the cold.
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YODEL: Ho-ho-o Bo-o-o Bill-ll
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No warm lights flickered around him, no blankets there to fold
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Nothing but, the howling wind and the driving rain, so cold ...
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When he heard a whistle blowing, in a dreamy kind of way
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The hobo seemed contented for he smiled there where he lay.
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YODEL: Ho-ho-o Bo-o-o Bill-ll
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Outside the rain was fallin' on that lonesome boxcar door
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But the little form of Hobo Bill lay still upon the floor...
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As the train sped thru the darkness and the raging storm outside
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No one knew that Hobo Bill was taking his last ride.
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YODEL: Ho-ho-o Bo-o-o Bill-ll
TRAIN WHISTLE
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