Hobo Cartoon Chords & Lyrics Artist: Sturgill Simpson

INTRO
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VERSE
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Wish I was riding the steam train, right out of the pages of time
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Down through the ol’ Roaring Twenties, to the fall of 1929
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Back in heyday of railroads, before airplanes fluttered and flew
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Color me in like a cartoon hobo doing what bums used to do
 
CHORUS
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Songs from the great Jimmie Rodgers
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Hearing ol’ Bing Crosby croon
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This is a song of how things used to be
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And a script of a hobo cartoon
 
VERSE
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Show me hopping a freight train, somewhere south of the yard
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Make it a Santa Fe boxcar, paint all rusty and hard
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Sketch out an old hobo jungle, make the old days come alive on the page
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Build a rough shack, down by thе track, weather it heavy with agе
 
CHORUS
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Songs from the great Jimmie Rodgers
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Hearing ol’ Bing Crosby croon
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This is a song of how things used to be
      A                   D
And a script of a hobo cartoon
 
INSTRUMENTAL
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BRIDGE
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Sometimes things are great to remember, some are too good to forget
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Things back then were so different, some things we think of them yet
 
CHORUS
G
Songs from the great Jimmie Rodgers
D                       G
Hearing ol’ Bing Crosby croon
D/A
This is a song of how things used to be
      A                   D/A
And a script of a hobo cartoon