Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Hobo Bill's Last Ride, artist - Hank Snow.
Date of issue: 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 |