Only a Hobo (Studio Outtake - 1963)

Lyrics

[Verse 1] As I was out walking on the corner one day I spied an old hobo, in a doorway he lay His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor And I guess he'd been there for the whole night or more [Chorus] Only a hobo but one more is gone Leaving nobody to sing his sad song Leaving nobody to carry him home He was only a hobo but one more is gone [Verse 2] A blanket of newspaper covered his head As the step was his pillow, the street was his bed One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come And a fistful of coins showed the money he bummed [Chorus] He was only a hobo but one more is gone Leaving nobody to sing his sad song Leaving nobody to carry him home He was only a hobo but one more is gone [Verse 3] Doesn't take much of a man to see his whole life go down To look up in the world from a hole in the ground To wait for your future, like a horse that's gone lame To lie in the gutter and die with no name [Chorus] He was only a hobo but one more is gone Leaving nobody to sing his sad song Leaving nobody to carry him home He was only a hobo but one more is gone