Hobo Bill's Last Ride-Jimmie Rodgers

[ti:Hobo Bill's Last Ride] [ar:Jimmie Rodgers] [al:The Essential Jimmie Rodgers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hobo Bill's Last Ride - Jimmie Rodgers [00:00.67]Hobo bill [00:05.98] [00:07.64]Riding east-bound freight train [00:10.48] [00:11.09]Stealing through the night [00:13.72] [00:14.56]He was just a lonesome hobo [00:17.28]Who was fighting for his life [00:20.51] [00:22.69]The sadness in his eyes revealed [00:25.66]The torture of his soul [00:29.00] [00:29.81]As he raised a weak and weary [00:32.20]Hand to brush away the cold [00:35.75] [00:36.53]Hobo bill [00:42.50] [00:43.03]No warm lights flickered 'round him [00:46.19] [00:46.73]No blankets were there to fold [00:49.36] [00:50.23]There was nothing but the howling wind [00:53.30]And the driving rain so cold [00:57.17] [00:58.78]As he heard a whistle blowing [01:02.21] [01:02.72]In a dreamy kind of way [01:05.71] [01:06.47]The hobo seemed contented for [01:08.49] [01:09.62]He smiled there where he lay [01:13.21]Hobo bill [01:18.60] [01:19.51]Outside the rain is falling [01:22.96]On that lonely boxcar door [01:26.49]But the little frame of [01:28.33]Hobo Bill lay still upon the floor [01:33.39] [01:34.73]As the train sped through the darkness [01:38.10]And the raging storm outside [01:41.15] [01:41.93]No one knew that Hobo Bill [01:44.95]Was taking his last ride [01:48.09] [01:58.64]It was early in the morning [02:01.99]When they raised the hobo's head [02:05.06] [02:05.58]The smile still lingered on his face [02:08.86]Though Hobo Bill was dead [02:12.39] [02:14.10]There was no one there [02:16.37]To weep for him [02:18.32]Or soothe his weary soul [02:20.55] [02:21.30]For he was just a hobo [02:23.88] [02:24.44]Who had died out in the cold