Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Hobo Bill's Last Ride , by - Hank Snow. Release date: 07.08.2014
Song language: English
Hobo Bill's Last Ride |
| Riding on an East-bound freight train, speeding thru the night |
| Hobo Bill, a railroad bum, was fighting for his life… |
| The sadness of his eyes revealed the torture of his soul |
| He raised a weak and weary hand to brush away the cold. |
| ~ YODEL: Ho-ho-o Bo-o-o Bil-lie! |
| No warm lights flickered around him, no blankets there to fold |
| Nothing but, the howling wind and the driving rain, so cold … |
| When he heard a whistle blowing, in a dreamy kind of way |
| The hobo seemed contented for he smiled there where he lay. |
| YODEL: Ho-ho-o Bo-o-o Bil-lie! |
| Outside the rain was fallin’on that lonesome boxcar door |
| But the little form of Hobo Bill lay still upon the floor… |
| As the train sped thru the darkness and the raging storm outside |
| No one knew that Hobo Bill was taking his last ride. |
| TRAIN WHISTLE |
| It was early in the mornin’when they raised the hobo’s head |
| The smile still lingered on his face, but Hobo Bill was dead … |
| There was no mother’s longin', to soothe his weary soul |
| For he was just a railroad bum, who died out in the cold. |
| TRAIN WHISTLE fade |