The Broken Down Tramp-The Carter Family

[ti:The Broken Down Tramp] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:Hello Stranger (1936-1937)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.11]The Broken Down Tramp - The Carter Family (卡特家族) [00:01.44]Written by：Thomas Herrington [00:02.43] [00:04.04]I'm a broken down tramp without money [00:07.99] [00:08.84]My clothes are all tattered and torn [00:12.51] [00:13.52]And I am so sad and so lonely [00:17.52] [00:18.17]I wish I had never been born [00:21.43] [00:23.98]All through this wide world I have wandered [00:28.00] [00:28.79]Inquiring for something to do [00:31.77] [00:33.25]But whenever I ask for a job of work [00:37.28] [00:37.88]They say they have none for a tramp [00:41.45] [00:51.65]Now drink was the 'cause of my downfall [00:55.50] [00:56.51]And the money I had I've outrun [00:59.69] [01:00.92]And the friends that were mine when I had it [01:04.64] [01:05.54]Now pass by and call me a bum [01:08.94] [01:11.50]Now don't be too hasty to judge me [01:15.52] [01:16.40]As I drift along with the tide [01:19.75] [01:20.91]My clothes may be ragged and dirty [01:24.76] [01:25.52]But a clean heart is beating inside [01:29.23] [01:39.23]One night on a dark lonely railroad [01:43.08] [01:43.97]A hobo all hungry and cold [01:47.51] [01:48.46]Saw an empty boxcar on the siding [01:52.23] [01:53.00]He climbed in and closed up the door [01:56.38] [01:58.76]Six months he had rode on the railway [02:02.59] [02:03.63]When the brakeman came 'round with his light [02:07.15] [02:08.25]He was shoved from the car [02:09.95]And was killed by the train [02:13.08]Because he was only a tramp [02:16.57] [02:26.54]Now young men let this be a warning [02:30.28] [02:31.27]For all you who long for the road [02:34.72] [02:35.85]Better stick to the straight life and don't be like me [02:40.34]A poor bum to die in the cold [02:44.19] [02:46.43]Now don't be too hasty to judge me [02:50.35] [02:51.17]As I drift along with the tide [02:54.85] [02:55.81]My clothes may be ragged and dirty [02:59.36] [03:00.49]But a clean heart is beating inside