Hobo In My Mind

(album: New Songs For Old Friends - 1973)

Up on Smoky Mountain
Drinking from a soda fountain
That's where I was when I was
A hobo in my mind
Hopping freights and picking dates
Gobbling beans from old tin plates
It seems like years since I was just
A hobo in my mind

It did no harm, it set my mind
To dreaming of a way
To get my hands on something
That I had to find someday
Far beyond Chicago
Somewhere where the longest trains go
That's where I was when I was
A hobo in my mind

Me and a couple of buddies
We didn't care if our shoes got muddy
We didn't care where the trains were bound
We'd ride them rascals blind
Oh, maybe I was crazy
Maybe just my foolish ways
But that's where I was when I was
A hobo in my mind

It did no harm, it set my mind
To dreaming of a way
To get my hands on something
That I had to find someday
Far beyond Chicago
Somewhere where the longest trains go
That's where I was when I was
A hobo in my mind

Far beyond Chicago
Somewhere where the longest trains go
That's where I was when I was
A hobo in my mind