Hobo Bill's Last Ride-Jimmie Rodgers/Memphis Minnie

[ti:Hobo Bill's Last Ride] [ar:Jimmie Rodgers] [al:Country & Western Hall of Fame: The Best of Jimmie Rodgers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hobo Bill's Last Ride - Jimmie Rodgers/Memphis Minnie [00:07.36]Riding on an eastbound freight train [00:10.97]Speeding through the night [00:14.17]Hobo Bill a railroad bum was fighting for his life [00:22.91]The sadness of his eyes revealed the torture of his [00:27.50]Soul [00:29.53]He raised a weak and weary hand to brush away the cold [00:36.33]Ho -oh oh bo-oh-oh Billy [00:42.74]No warm lights flickered around him no blankets there [00:47.81]To fold [00:49.88]Nothing but the howling wind and the driving rain so [00:55.19]Cold [00:58.52]When he heard a whistle blowing in a dreamy kind of way [01:06.15]The hobo seemed contented for he smiled there where he [01:11.04]Lay [01:13.01]Ho -oh oh bo-oh-oh Bill [01:19.19]Outside the rain was falling on that lonely boxcar door [01:26.08]But the little form of Hobo Bill lay still upon the [01:31.39]Floor [01:34.35]While the train sped through the darkness and the [01:38.42]Raging storm outside [01:41.75]No one knew that Hobo Bill was taking his last ride [01:48.64]Woo woo [01:58.28]It was early in the morning when they raised the hobo's [02:03.48]Head [02:05.45]The smile still lingered on his face but Hobo Bill was [02:10.63]Dead [02:13.79]There was no mother's longing to soothe his weary soul [02:20.94]For he was just a railroad bum who died out in the cold [02:27.44]Woo woo