Hobo Bill's Last Ride-Hank Snow/Anita Carter

[ti:Hobo Bill's Last Ride] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:Just Keep A Movin'] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hobo Bill's Last Ride - Hank Snow/Anita Carter [00:07.89]Riding on an east bound freight train [00:10.26] [00:11.38]Speeding through the night [00:13.55] [00:15.17]Hobo Bill a railroad bum [00:18.09] [00:18.71]Was fighting for his life [00:20.82] [00:22.56]The sadness of his eyes revealed [00:25.65] [00:26.39]The torture of his soul [00:28.41] [00:30.22]He raised a weak and weary hand [00:33.27] [00:33.83]To brush away the cold [00:36.06] [00:37.46]No warm lights flickered around him [00:40.46] [00:41.12]No blankets there to fold [00:43.23] [00:45.38]Nothing but the howling wind [00:48.69]And the driving rain so cold [00:50.82] [00:52.38]When he heard a whistle blowing [00:54.29] [00:56.05]In a dreamy kind of way [00:58.24] [01:00.14]The hobo seemed contented for [01:02.87] [01:03.47]He smiled there where he lay [01:06.08] [01:14.87]Outside the rain was fallin' [01:17.40] [01:18.64]On that lonesome boxcar door [01:20.92] [01:22.34]But the little form of Hobo Bill [01:25.57] [01:26.15]Lay still upon the floor [01:28.28] [01:29.78]As the train sped through the darkness [01:32.67] [01:33.79]And the raging storm outside [01:35.75] [01:37.80]No one knew that Hobo Bill [01:40.68] [01:41.32]Was taking his last ride [01:43.23] [01:52.38]It was early in the mornin' [01:54.85] [01:56.12]When they raised the hobo's head [01:58.68] [02:00.01]The smile still lingered on his face [02:03.35] [02:04.02]But Hobo Bill was dead [02:06.21] [02:07.45]There was no mother's longin' [02:09.89] [02:11.50]To soothe his weary soul [02:13.32] [02:15.17]For he was just a railroad bum [02:18.62]Who died out in the cold