C g f fm6

There was a chill that night in the hobo jungle

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Over the train yard lay a smooth coat of frost

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And although nobody here really knows where they're goin'

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At the very same time nobody's lost





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Then the fire went out and the night grew still

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This old man lay frozen on the cold, cold ground

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He was a stray bird and the road was his callin'

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Ridin' the rods

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Sleepin' under the stars

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Playin' the odds from a rollin' box car





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She attended the fun'ral in the hobo jungle

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Long were they lovers though never could they wed

C g/c f fm6/ab

Drifters and rounders and distant friends

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Here i lie without anger or regret

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I'm in no one's debt



D a/d

Man goes nowhere

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Ev'rything comes like tomorrow

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But she took that last ride there by his side

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He spent his whole life pursuing the horizon

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Ridin' the rods

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Sleepin' under the stars

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Playin' the odds from a rollin' box car