Last Of The Hobo Kings (Album Version)-Mary Gauthier

[ti:] [ar:Mary Gauthier] [al:Between Daylight And Dark] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.03]Last Of The Hobo Kings (Album Version) - Mary Gauthier [00:01.94]Written by：Mary Gauthi [00:02.29] [00:39.04]Steam Train Maury died last night [00:41.64]His wife Wanda by his side [00:43.95] [00:45.32]He caught the Westbound out of here [00:47.80]Hopped the high irons to the by and by [00:50.60] [00:51.29]They say he jumped ten thousand trains [00:53.69]Rode a million miles for free [00:55.78] [00:57.21]Helped out at VA hospitals and penitentiarys [01:02.37] [01:03.21]Dandy Dave Rusty Nails and Sweet Lady Sugar Cane [01:07.50] [01:08.91]Dead Eye Kate and the Baloney Kid [01:11.32]Raise their cups tonight in Steam Trains name [01:15.04]Senators congressmen puppets on a string [01:19.41] [01:20.79]Among the windswept vagabonds Steam Train was the king [01:25.53] [01:26.30]The last [01:27.51] [01:31.37]Of the hobo kings [01:33.08] [01:37.98]The last [01:39.40] [01:43.14]Of the hobo kings [01:45.11] [02:12.84]Now bums just drink and wander round [02:15.74]Tramps dream and wander too [02:17.67] [02:18.61]But a hobo was a pioneer who preferred to work for food [02:23.47] [02:24.14]He knew how his nation was doing [02:26.38]By the length of a side walk cigarette butt [02:29.40] [02:30.75]Born with an aching wanderlust [02:32.86]Embedded in his gut [02:35.19] [02:36.30]Hounded beaten laughed at broke [02:38.69]Chased out of every town [02:40.79] [02:41.55]With a walking stick scepter [02:44.42]And a shredded coffee can crown [02:47.35]The last [02:48.42] [02:52.22]Of the hobo kings [02:54.34] [02:58.47]He was the last [02:59.93] [03:04.21]Of the hobo kings [03:05.48] [03:33.83]The last free men are hoboes [03:36.08]Steinbeck said and he paid cash [03:38.71] [03:39.24]And the stories that he bought from them [03:41.96]Helped write the Grapes of Wrath [03:44.08] [03:45.06]But boxcars have been sealed for years [03:47.85]And trespassers do time [03:50.29] [03:51.25]And the railroad yards are razor wired [03:53.66]And hoboing's a crime [03:55.67] [03:56.26]So here's to you Steam Train Maury [03:58.58] [03:59.70]Hold that Westbound tight [04:01.37] [04:02.19]As you ride off into history [04:04.10] [04:04.62]The last hobo the last ride [04:07.75]The last [04:08.88] [04:12.94]Of the hobo kings [04:14.73] [04:18.59]He was the last [04:20.10] [04:24.28]Of the hobo kings [04:25.95]