Only a Hobo (Oscar Brand Show/World of Music, March '63) Songtext
von Bob Dylan

As I was out walking on a 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

Only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
Leavin′ nobody to carry him home
Only a hobo, but one more is gone


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 money showed the coins he bummed

He was only a hobo, but one more is gone
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
And leavin′ nobody to carry him home
Only a hobo, but one more is gone

Does it take much of a man to see his whole life go down
To look up on 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?


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