As I was out a-walkin' on a corner one day
I spotted an old hobo in the doorway he lay
His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
And I guess he'd been dead for the whole night or more
Only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo but one more is gone
A blanket of newspaper covered his head
As a step was his pillow, the street was his bed
One look at his face showed the heart
He'd come a fistful of coins showed the money he bombed
He was only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo but one more is gone
Does it take much of a man to see his whole life go down
To live a life like that?
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 to die with no name
He was only a hobo but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
He was only a hobo but one more is gone
To live a life like that