Jumped a train near Kansas City onto an ore car carryin' steel rods. Was in a hole up front. when I was near where I wanted go, climbed up on the car to get off. No sooner than I climbed on the edge of the car, the train slowed and the load shifted, slamming to where I was riding
Most of these aren't hoboes, I'm old enough to have known some. Hoboes weren't bums or homeless, they were migrants, just like the caravans of central Asia. Good song though
What we were once assured would never again happen in the USA is, sadly, now becoming an all-too-familiar site in every large city and in every small town. And it will get a LOT worse before it gets any better :-(
I am truly thankful for a roof over my head. It may not be my own, but I'm safe and I'm dry.
@JDL9615 : Thanks for this upload of one of my favorite Arlo songs off the album of the same name. The images - as well as the words - hit me this morning in a deep place in my heart. I have been there with those men and women, and I always knew before that "there but for the Grace of God go I". That's just it : next time you see them, smile, talk a moment, give change if you can, and know as you look into their eyes, that that there but for the Grace of God go you. Pax Aeternum brothers
With jobs not here anymore in the US there will be more and more homeless folks. Bring the factories and industries back to the US. We need to help all Americans have a life not just giving it only to the rich.
@starlight1946 All thosse companies who moved to third world countries where the labour is cheap ought to have remembered the workers and communities that BUILT their companies. It's the same here in Canada - NAFTA was a big mistake on our part, too, and there's a lot of folks are getting their dinners from soup kitchens and food banks as a result.
When I was a boy in school the teacher told us when speaking of the great depression that we should not worry because the wise men who lead us had taken measures to assure that nothing like that could ever happen again. Being a boy, I belived that shit.
You have put a fantastic video together for this song. This is my favorite version after all these years. My mom fed the men who came to the back door in the mid '50's. I can barely remember it. The tracks were right across the road and that Illinois town was a stopping place. It was hard for many of the men when they came back from WWII. It is still hard.
to the untrain eye parting the red sea is turning water into wine and when a hobo pushes a shopping cart to a gabage can fire to warm his hands it rings true to the lost jesus gospel of a homeless stranger born in the barn of a manger...
Joseph and Mary were not homeless. They traveled to Bethlehem as required by the Roman census. Travel had its risks then, especially in finding a place to stay. And they did request a room at "the inn", so they must have had the funds to afford a room. Too bad they didn't have a travel agent or Traveocity, they might have done better.
Yes, they were in a bad situation and had stay in the only place available. It must have been miserable. But they were NOT homeless.
@JDL9615 You'd think it would've been written about somewhere else in history. Some peep out of somebody somewhere. Back in those days especially, everyone having to do that would be a massive undertaking. But okay.
@JDL9615 Mary and Joseph may not have been technically homeless--but they were stuck in a strange place and Mary was in labour and had to give birth in a stable. I'd say that's close enough. And anyway, the child who came would become the Word made flesh. The Lord of all who loves the poor and homeless. All else is nitpicking.
@supsupese most folks think woody wrote it...he might as well have, it fits woody better than anything but you are correct. woody's version is the best.
"I know the police cause you trouble... They cause trouble everywhere..... but when you die and go to heaven..... you wont find no policemen there!" Peace to all the hobos.
this is a nice song and video it makes you thankful for all you have. god bless all you hobo's. my dad ralph lewis gooding aka hood river blackie was a hobo for many years. and this song made me miss him even more. i love you daddy.
"Hobo's Lullaby" is a song written by Goebel Reeves, and famously performed by various people including folk singer Woody Guthrie, his son Arlo Guthrie.
...like raindrops on your windows on a grey autumn day,when your girlfriend left you and your only true love doggy died...your favourite team lost the final match and the beers on your freak" suddenly out of order" fridge are fuc.... warm!!...
One of my all-time favorite folk songs....sad as hell....the pictures put together with the song were very well thought out......if you like this try some Patty Griffin esp."Long Ride Home" and "Rain"
I love this song. I saw Arlo in concert a while back and I told him after the show that I had raised three kids singing this song and "Lay Down Little Dogies" to them as lullabies. Arlo smiled and said, "Well. Did they turn out alright?" I said they were all three fine. Thanks for posting this great song with your marvelous photo montage.
pamelajsico, when I stayed at my Grandparents in Ripon, California in the late forties - early fifties, often hobos from the nearby railroad along highway 99 would come to their little goat dairy to work for grandpa Clewett. Grandma would fix good food from their meager pantry, and they asked for small jars to take some on their way. Now, as I consider my retirement years, I want to do what I can to live as my grandparents did. I sure do miss them!
My grandma used to have a mark on her front porch that the hobos from the nearby train tracks would leave. It meant that there was warm food there for them. That it how she was.
@pamelajsico During the Depression my great-grandparents had what we would today call an acreage. My great-grandfather tended a massive garden that produced more than what they needed. So they would give to those who couldn't afford food. Most people were proud and would insist on doing work for their food so he had to leave things on his to-do-list alone so they could "earn" their meal. He would have given it to them either way. I have to ask if they had a mark, I know they helped many a hobo.
@pamelajsico Hobo Trail Marks. Indicated safe towns to get off a train at, or not to get off at. Places where you could get a meal in exchange for work. They had marks for everything including good places to set up camp at, towns with mean dogs, or nice people like your grandmother. I used to have a copy of their marks but I lost it, but I am sure you can find one online somewhere.
this song makes me want to cry!!!!! if you make fun of hobos think if you were a hobo would you be makeing fun of other hobos and i don't care if i speeled any of this wrong!!!
Hmm...you're obviously well-researched and well-thought out comment here has caught my interest. Would you mind showing me the reports and data that show that Obama has caused the economic crisis? I would really like to see that...
@tightness411 - haven't you heard yet? Nobama IS the current crisis in America, except that it's not him, nor any politician that created it, it's the owners of those politicians, the Banker Cartel, who are writing out the script that every politician this century has to quote, or die, i.e., like President Kennedy, who stepped out of line two weeks before his murder, when he signed an order to abolish Cartel Banker money control. Nobama and JW are good ol' buddies, in real life.
@tightness411 I don't think I (Double strike and double underline under I) can show you...I don't even believe Obama caused it. WEARY HOBO, GO TO SLEEP! ( I know that was out of order)
I've never heard this song before, and now love it. The photographs you added to it do it justice. Just one comment though. There is a difference between a hobo, a tramp, and a bum as they are not all one and the same. Just my $0.02 worth. Hope it buys you a cup of coffee:)
@stonedude77 I'm glad you informed me of this as I was just on my way to buy a cup of coffee, and wouldn't have had enough money. What happened, did you look down and realize your shortcomings?
I think of myself as a youth, leaving my homeland, traveling 'on my thumb' falling in with differing companions seeking solace in booze and weed(poor company indeed) seeking only to avoid my own babysoul within
thank goodness for the cult of AA to help my healingsong
those poor mens and womens who just wantered to get some help from the guvment it is so wrong back then that the guv didn't seek to help
I've been thousands of miles through the southeast chasing an Arlo Guthrie appearance with much success. This is a song that he truly made his own! And I haven't even ever heard Woody's version. I love you Arlo.
In the 50's I grew up close to train tracks. We'd have hobos come to our house. Mom gave one some coffee grounds. A few days later a few more showed up too beg. Come to find out, the first one put a can lid on one of our trees. That was to let others know they could get a free hand-out. Finally Mom told one of them she couldn't afford to give away food. She had 5 kids. They understood. By the way the can lid disappeared from the tree, and we never saw another hobo at our house.
Utah would say, "The past didn't go anywhere, it's right here with us." He also said that Ben Reichman, who used to travel with Emma Goldman, wrote in his book 'The Damnedest Radical' : A hobo works and wanders, a tramp dreams and wanders, and a bum drinks and wanders. Try to keep that sorted out in your head. My friend taught me a very moving version of this song that she and her family sang to her uncle as he died. I love the part about there being no police in heaven.
I agree that it sounds a lot like like Just Before the Battle, but I hear some slight differences. Whether it's enough for a George Harrison to win a "My Dear Lord"/"he's So Fine" lawsuit - I dunno!
"whoever wrote it" Ye Gods, you are not familiar with America's formost balladeer and songwriter? Read his autobiography (mostly fictional) "Bound for Glory"; read Joe Klein's bio of him: in fact read anything you can find on the man. Truly and original...
Written by Goebel Reeves. Recorded by Woody and Arlo Guthrie (separately), Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Utah Phillips (my friend and hero), and Pete Seeger (who just turned 90)
Woody Guthrie wrote this song. I don't know who sang and recorded this version though. It's almost unrecognizable compared to Woody's...which is far better.;)
The Hobo's Lullaby is one of the most beautiful songs ever been made. I've never been homeless myself, but as a truth seeker yes - I've felt like that often (cannot find any ideology to fit in or sufficient answers to certain questions). In a way I feel the whole life is about being a hobo: searching, wondering, enjoying, being able to stay, able to leave, able to keep and able to change one's mind if you been wrong, or to return back if the new road chosen proved to be a bad choice.
the name hobo came from being a "hoe boy"they were men who tied a sack of there posesions to hoe to find work on farms the phenomnon happened at the end of the civil war and again during depression thease were the people Woody guthrie sang the song about. the word hobo means some one with their hoe looking for work. i think the meaning has been lost
People become homeless for a variety of reasons. We'll probably see many more soon, as a consequence of the decline of common sense values, and the acceptance of greed as the norm. Who are you to pass judgement upon people who find themselves on the road, for whatever reason? I spent some time on the road in my youth, and I met plenty like you, but fortunately even more kindly souls, who gave me a helping hand which was very welcome.
Jumped a train near Kansas City onto an ore car carryin' steel rods. Was in a hole up front. when I was near where I wanted go, climbed up on the car to get off. No sooner than I climbed on the edge of the car, the train slowed and the load shifted, slamming to where I was riding
fredjackamikoons 1 week ago in playlist music
aka "Weary Hobo", written by Goebel Reeves
libertynet2001 1 month ago
But the song is. Thanks, i thought it was me who was confused.
StGeorgeFred 1 month ago
Most of these aren't hoboes, I'm old enough to have known some. Hoboes weren't bums or homeless, they were migrants, just like the caravans of central Asia. Good song though
StGeorgeFred 1 month ago 2
This slideshow isn't about hobos or migrants.
JDL9615 1 month ago
this tune written by Arlo's Dad, Woody!
LadyFernwood 1 month ago
16 people are rich people that never slept in boxcars!
darkpotebytch 2 months ago
This song was written by Arlo's dad, Woody Guthrie.
gabehampton 5 months ago
Great work, so added you to our playlists here and beyond, :) thanks
PoetryETrain 5 months ago
in answer to who wrote it, woody guthrie did. arlo's daddy
enjoy it for its simple beauty . guthrie wrote what he lived and, saw
his music a wonderful gift
prudentilla 5 months ago
Beautifully executed video, thank you JDL.
What we were once assured would never again happen in the USA is, sadly, now becoming an all-too-familiar site in every large city and in every small town. And it will get a LOT worse before it gets any better :-(
I am truly thankful for a roof over my head. It may not be my own, but I'm safe and I'm dry.
Living2bLoved 5 months ago
Thank you, JDL...
Jefounet 5 months ago
Dude .....his pop wrote it....! Hobo's Lullabye, one of woody's finest.......
sharkey37x 6 months ago
Goebel Reeves.........ignorance is bliss
sharkey37x 6 months ago
Goebel Reeves... a lot of people think Woody wrote it, because it was his favorite song..... that's who wrote it. It's a great song!
zd3007 7 months ago
this is one of my favorite songs..it relaxes the mind soul and body.its a great song,some of my freinds live like this.i soon to join.
SuperMountainmonkey 8 months ago
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coulcifer 8 months ago
@JDL9615 : Thanks for this upload of one of my favorite Arlo songs off the album of the same name. The images - as well as the words - hit me this morning in a deep place in my heart. I have been there with those men and women, and I always knew before that "there but for the Grace of God go I". That's just it : next time you see them, smile, talk a moment, give change if you can, and know as you look into their eyes, that that there but for the Grace of God go you. Pax Aeternum brothers
arhatyellow 8 months ago
Wonderful montage -- great work.
pumpsiegr 8 months ago
You people talking about make belief stuff out of the bible.... sheez!
seq165432 8 months ago
Great song, great slideshow. One of my favorites
atelang666 9 months ago
It's not about the bible. It's about the depression.
julietennyson1 9 months ago
The first time I've heard this song, really nice and smooth, like it lots
group4taker 9 months ago
Written bt Don Cocharn of Kingston Ontario
josie56100 10 months ago
With jobs not here anymore in the US there will be more and more homeless folks. Bring the factories and industries back to the US. We need to help all Americans have a life not just giving it only to the rich.
starlight1946 11 months ago
@starlight1946 All thosse companies who moved to third world countries where the labour is cheap ought to have remembered the workers and communities that BUILT their companies. It's the same here in Canada - NAFTA was a big mistake on our part, too, and there's a lot of folks are getting their dinners from soup kitchens and food banks as a result.
carollizc 10 months ago 3
When I was a boy in school the teacher told us when speaking of the great depression that we should not worry because the wise men who lead us had taken measures to assure that nothing like that could ever happen again. Being a boy, I belived that shit.
freddlyo 1 year ago 9
@freddlyo Obviously, she was a FDR democrat.
SecsSells 1 month ago
You have put a fantastic video together for this song. This is my favorite version after all these years. My mom fed the men who came to the back door in the mid '50's. I can barely remember it. The tracks were right across the road and that Illinois town was a stopping place. It was hard for many of the men when they came back from WWII. It is still hard.
MyMoppet52 1 year ago
Great song. My favorite part is that there will be no policeman in heaven. I think I prefer the Kingston Trio's faster version of this though.
watutman 1 year ago
"Who ever wrote it", haha you do know his father wrote it, right?
radioheadcreeps 1 year ago
His dad woody Guthrie wrote it
RxAwesome33 1 year ago
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mythgar 1 year ago
wow@ 1:51
luv2text1 1 year ago
to the untrain eye parting the red sea is turning water into wine and when a hobo pushes a shopping cart to a gabage can fire to warm his hands it rings true to the lost jesus gospel of a homeless stranger born in the barn of a manger...
KellyBellaayy 1 year ago
Joseph and Mary were not homeless. They traveled to Bethlehem as required by the Roman census. Travel had its risks then, especially in finding a place to stay. And they did request a room at "the inn", so they must have had the funds to afford a room. Too bad they didn't have a travel agent or Traveocity, they might have done better.
Yes, they were in a bad situation and had stay in the only place available. It must have been miserable. But they were NOT homeless.
JDL9615 1 year ago
@JDL9615 There's no record of the Roman census ever requiring everyone to return to their birthplace.
UnusualTastes 1 year ago
@UnusualTastes: Read the beginning of Luke's Gospel, Chapter 2. It's just like to the government to lose records. Some things seem to never change.
JDL9615 1 year ago
@JDL9615 You'd think it would've been written about somewhere else in history. Some peep out of somebody somewhere. Back in those days especially, everyone having to do that would be a massive undertaking. But okay.
UnusualTastes 1 year ago
@JDL9615 I think the point was that, "foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
sunpie 11 months ago
@sunpie Yes you do understand the greater message. You see things as the Father wishes us to see and not as man sees.
JDL9615 11 months ago
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sunpie 11 months ago
@JDL9615 oh yeah cuz the bible is historical fact...good call
AcidPhos69 6 months ago
travellers
IanRawlinson 11 months ago
@JDL9615 Mary and Joseph may not have been technically homeless--but they were stuck in a strange place and Mary was in labour and had to give birth in a stable. I'd say that's close enough. And anyway, the child who came would become the Word made flesh. The Lord of all who loves the poor and homeless. All else is nitpicking.
mightymissk 10 months ago
@JDL9615 must it have been miserable? could it have been preferable to them?
FairEnterprise 2 months ago
@JDL9615 I agree, Although they were certainly misplaced when they had to stay in Egypt.
wilsonaaronm08 2 months ago
This song was written by Arlos Daddy Woody during the depression.
cosmiqueflare 1 year ago
HOBOZ LULLABY
eclipsechicks 1 year ago
no hobo yo
mycrotchbiatch 1 year ago
Isn't this one of his dad's (Woody) songs?
maeve5280 1 year ago
beautiful visuals too. thanks.
bbbartolo 1 year ago
How beautiful?
socrates757 1 year ago
My dad used to sing this to me when I was a baby and had to go to sleep :)
CryingBlackFairy 1 year ago
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Arlo's father Woodie Guthrie wrote this song. 70 years after he wrote it and we still have major problems of homelessness in America.
jokr8790 1 year ago
Arlo's father Woodie Guthrie wrote this song. 70 years after he wrote it and we still have major problems of homelessness in America.
jokr8790 1 year ago
@jokr8790 actually he didnt write it Goebel Reeves did, however woody's version is my favorite
supsupese 1 year ago 2
@supsupese most folks think woody wrote it...he might as well have, it fits woody better than anything but you are correct. woody's version is the best.
MrBuk86 11 months ago
OMG! THE DUDE AT 2:45 LOOKS JUST LIKE MY NAN'S FRIEND! SERIOUSLY I THINK IT'S HIM!
Ally15166cp 1 year ago
OMG! There's even a dog hobo?
Ally15166cp 1 year ago
"I know the police cause you trouble... They cause trouble everywhere..... but when you die and go to heaven..... you wont find no policemen there!" Peace to all the hobos.
Dinclubpenguin 1 year ago
this is a nice song and video it makes you thankful for all you have. god bless all you hobo's. my dad ralph lewis gooding aka hood river blackie was a hobo for many years. and this song made me miss him even more. i love you daddy.
glitterdust72 1 year ago
His daddy Woody Guthrie wrote it as a lulaby for Arlo.
1anazazi 1 year ago
"Hobo's Lullaby" is a song written by Goebel Reeves, and famously performed by various people including folk singer Woody Guthrie, his son Arlo Guthrie.
StvMcQueen1 1 year ago
my mom used to sing me this right before i went to bed every night.
Love it so much.
KissTheStrawberries 1 year ago
His father, Woody Guthrie, wrote it.
macpherf 1 year ago
@macpherf
think it was written for Arlo...
shawnclarkston 1 year ago
As a small child my dad used to sing this song to me at night
j6460887 1 year ago
i love this song
montypython11111 1 year ago
im a hobo by heart
sw33069 1 year ago
@sw33069 same here buddy
leedlearmhair56 1 year ago
@sw33069 me to..... :) peace to all the hobos on this planet
Dinclubpenguin 1 year ago
His dad did, as far as I know, but no one, and I mean no one, sings it like Arlo. Even Pete Seeger, who's just amazing.
cjnoble71 1 year ago
if u like arlo youll love his dad woody guthrie..a true hobo
jaydee123xyz 1 year ago
"When you die and go to heaven, you won't find no policeman there."
skunkfunk89 1 year ago 18
...like raindrops on your windows on a grey autumn day,when your girlfriend left you and your only true love doggy died...your favourite team lost the final match and the beers on your freak" suddenly out of order" fridge are fuc.... warm!!...
Umbertomanens 1 year ago
written by Goebel Reeves....long ago
cindyshealed 1 year ago
Goebel Reeves
shyambecker 1 year ago
One of my all-time favorite folk songs....sad as hell....the pictures put together with the song were very well thought out......if you like this try some Patty Griffin esp."Long Ride Home" and "Rain"
bidlakbks 1 year ago
i was there we he wrote that song
kemicchew 1 year ago
Woody Guthrie. great song, not crazy about this version.
edtheabbot 1 year ago
ha! killer man.. seriously
TheNessa98 1 year ago
I smiled when some blamed Obama for the down turn!!....
Come down to New zealand guys, we don't think we are the centre of all thats good or bad and we make a genuine attempt to look after our poor!
MrLasers12 1 year ago 3
Such a beautiful song *tear*
Toontown348 1 year ago
His dad Woody Guthrie (as far as I know) Woody is the original~~
arielskye7 1 year ago
This is a good song...I remember my dad singing it to me...I am not a hobo anyways, lol
Toontown348 1 year ago
its weary hobo
hooksnook 1 year ago
its weary hobo
hooksnook 1 year ago
this song is so sad it touched my heart. it changes a person.
xMissxNinjax 1 year ago
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MrCoketron 1 year ago
I didn't know this song. It's amazing, touching. Thanks for the video.
MrCoketron 1 year ago
Woodys son.
A institution in his own right.
Tumbleweed5555 1 year ago
Arlo Guthire? relative to Woody or just missprint?
MrP945 1 year ago
this is my fave song it reminds me of my grampa i luv him
jbluver242 1 year ago
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LeesMom 1 year ago
reeves should have gone 2 new york in 1940 .
think 'bout it
top tune, thx
willgonow 1 year ago 3
even look it up on GOOGLE!!
Greekdude252 2 years ago
gnarwhalfuckyou is right Goebel Reeves wrote it! Woody Guthrie AND Arlo Guthrie SANG it NOT wrote it!!!!
Greekdude252 2 years ago 5
I love this song. I saw Arlo in concert a while back and I told him after the show that I had raised three kids singing this song and "Lay Down Little Dogies" to them as lullabies. Arlo smiled and said, "Well. Did they turn out alright?" I said they were all three fine. Thanks for posting this great song with your marvelous photo montage.
lowonthehill 2 years ago 5
Woody Guthrie wrote this song
galwaygirl501 2 years ago
Goebel Reeves wrote it.
Gnarwhalfuckyou 2 years ago 4
my sincere apologies, you were right Woody Guthrie didn't write this song,Goebel Reeves did.
galwaygirl501 2 years ago 3
I think this ough to have been the hymn we sang at my father's funeral. He had once been a hobo when he was 17,
TedMichaelMorgan 2 years ago 3
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bpreo 2 years ago
haha love the first line.
"GO TO SLEEP YOU EERIE HOBO!!"
Extremepwnage14 2 years ago
lol....but it's "WEARY HOBO"
JDL9615 2 years ago 10
@JDL9615 You're right it is, "WEARY," not, "EERIE" I hope I spelled that right!! =D
Toontown348 1 year ago
@JDL9615 You are right, it is "Weary" not "Eerie"
Toontown348 1 year ago
@Extremepwnage14 hahahahaha
dirtycomment 1 year ago
Arlo Guthrie for president, Country Joe McDonald for VIce President. BTW
Arlo said this was his Father's favorite song.
reallygonecat 2 years ago
Pete Seeger's gotta fit in there some where.
galwaygirl501 2 years ago 2
encore encore i love this song..........jk jk jk
bryanna773 2 years ago
pamelajsico, when I stayed at my Grandparents in Ripon, California in the late forties - early fifties, often hobos from the nearby railroad along highway 99 would come to their little goat dairy to work for grandpa Clewett. Grandma would fix good food from their meager pantry, and they asked for small jars to take some on their way. Now, as I consider my retirement years, I want to do what I can to live as my grandparents did. I sure do miss them!
claudius2u 2 years ago
Goebel Reeves wrote it in 1962.
bubbabeanski 2 years ago
LOL@ "whoever wrote it" pretty sure his dad wrote this song, but yes beautiful song
dmichaelbraley 2 years ago
My grandma used to have a mark on her front porch that the hobos from the nearby train tracks would leave. It meant that there was warm food there for them. That it how she was.
pamelajsico 2 years ago 27
she was a good woman, your grandma
TheBowerybum 2 years ago
@pamelajsico During the Depression my great-grandparents had what we would today call an acreage. My great-grandfather tended a massive garden that produced more than what they needed. So they would give to those who couldn't afford food. Most people were proud and would insist on doing work for their food so he had to leave things on his to-do-list alone so they could "earn" their meal. He would have given it to them either way. I have to ask if they had a mark, I know they helped many a hobo.
Nohname1 1 year ago
@pamelajsico Hobo Trail Marks. Indicated safe towns to get off a train at, or not to get off at. Places where you could get a meal in exchange for work. They had marks for everything including good places to set up camp at, towns with mean dogs, or nice people like your grandmother. I used to have a copy of their marks but I lost it, but I am sure you can find one online somewhere.
Mosparx78 1 year ago
this song makes me want to cry!!!!! if you make fun of hobos think if you were a hobo would you be makeing fun of other hobos and i don't care if i speeled any of this wrong!!!
charlotteandkenley1 2 years ago 3
We will see a lot of Hobos again in the next time..
Cause of the Greatest Depression (Obamageddon) -
The Fall of The USA.
Berlin101Berlin 2 years ago
Hmm...you're obviously well-researched and well-thought out comment here has caught my interest. Would you mind showing me the reports and data that show that Obama has caused the economic crisis? I would really like to see that...
tightness411 2 years ago 12
@tightness411 - haven't you heard yet? Nobama IS the current crisis in America, except that it's not him, nor any politician that created it, it's the owners of those politicians, the Banker Cartel, who are writing out the script that every politician this century has to quote, or die, i.e., like President Kennedy, who stepped out of line two weeks before his murder, when he signed an order to abolish Cartel Banker money control. Nobama and JW are good ol' buddies, in real life.
claudius2u 2 years ago
@tightness411 I don't think I (Double strike and double underline under I) can show you...I don't even believe Obama caused it. WEARY HOBO, GO TO SLEEP! ( I know that was out of order)
Toontown348 1 year ago
I cried, then i sent it to my cuz, and she cried!!!
snookDcat 2 years ago
I've never heard this song before, and now love it. The photographs you added to it do it justice. Just one comment though. There is a difference between a hobo, a tramp, and a bum as they are not all one and the same. Just my $0.02 worth. Hope it buys you a cup of coffee:)
wtf0987 2 years ago 3
Thanks, and you are correct .
Don't get caught in the details and look at the big picture. The song is about hobos; the slideshow isn't. You are close to seeing it.
JDL9615 2 years ago 2
@wtf0987 I don't think 2c (2 cents) buys coffee anymore...probably did when my dad was a kid in the '50's
Toontown348 1 year ago
@wtf0987 What would you know about the difference, bet you've never missed a meal in your life. $0.02 don't buy squat these days so save it.
stonedude77 1 year ago
@stonedude77 I'm glad you informed me of this as I was just on my way to buy a cup of coffee, and wouldn't have had enough money. What happened, did you look down and realize your shortcomings?
wtf0987 1 year ago
It was written by Goebel Reeves. Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men that have come with the dust and are gone with the wind...
paulhallart 2 years ago 7
A fool knows the drunk by the color of his sin; 'but a drunk can only blame himself by the way sunlight hits his gin'.
WillDeliver 2 years ago
Some folks chose the life. My ex among them.
I heard the song on the CBC tonight... and checked out:
Hobo's Lullaby
by Goebel Reeves
Go to sleep you weary hobo
Let the towns drift slowly by
Can't you hear the steel rail humming
That's a hobo's lullaby
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God Bless!
bobberJR65 2 years ago 2
3:06 What a picture,what a friendship,God Bless.
631959 2 years ago 2
it made meh cry!
cpturtle1 2 years ago
Really nice song, lots of imagery and hope in the song =) I wish good luck amongst all hobos.
Currens17 2 years ago 7
He has this certain something in his voice:
honesty...
It's as if he cares about every hobo in the whole world...
kinskifreak 2 years ago 2
I think of myself as a youth, leaving my homeland, traveling 'on my thumb' falling in with differing companions seeking solace in booze and weed(poor company indeed) seeking only to avoid my own babysoul within
thank goodness for the cult of AA to help my healingsong
those poor mens and womens who just wantered to get some help from the guvment it is so wrong back then that the guv didn't seek to help
thank our stars for mr FDR
alcoholichealer 2 years ago 2
this is very beautiful
even though tis immensely saddening
so many transients have mental illness or alcohol/drug slavery
some of course are just out there and checking out the realm surround
much obliged
mynah bird
weewillyjack 2 years ago
I've been thousands of miles through the southeast chasing an Arlo Guthrie appearance with much success. This is a song that he truly made his own! And I haven't even ever heard Woody's version. I love you Arlo.
bill713b 2 years ago
In the 50's I grew up close to train tracks. We'd have hobos come to our house. Mom gave one some coffee grounds. A few days later a few more showed up too beg. Come to find out, the first one put a can lid on one of our trees. That was to let others know they could get a free hand-out. Finally Mom told one of them she couldn't afford to give away food. She had 5 kids. They understood. By the way the can lid disappeared from the tree, and we never saw another hobo at our house.
flirjock 2 years ago 5
a powerful song 1 of my favs
kurtsquirt 2 years ago 4
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I hate hobos!
markkloeppel 2 years ago
It's a Goebel Reeves song-Woody Guthrie also recorded it.
ZAGGLETON 2 years ago
VandilLoco, a jelly fish has more of a spine than you'll ever have.You're the lowest life form this world has ever known.YOU ARE A COWARD!!
ronfel38 2 years ago
chill. it was an entirely harmless comment.
StealYerFace95 2 years ago
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I pee on hobos while they sleep ;)
VandilLoco 2 years ago
Uncalled for and immature
razzle504b 2 years ago 2
i don't believe you
kurtsquirt 2 years ago
My mom ( who would be 90 now) also knew this tune as "When I'm gone, you'll soon forget me".
littlebluerambler 2 years ago
WEIRD.:(
theAGluvers 2 years ago
Utah would say, "The past didn't go anywhere, it's right here with us." He also said that Ben Reichman, who used to travel with Emma Goldman, wrote in his book 'The Damnedest Radical' : A hobo works and wanders, a tramp dreams and wanders, and a bum drinks and wanders. Try to keep that sorted out in your head. My friend taught me a very moving version of this song that she and her family sang to her uncle as he died. I love the part about there being no police in heaven.
austinitesince1979 2 years ago
Goerbal (not spelled correctly) Reeves, wrote it
afoolspath83 2 years ago
I 'found back' this song after more than 30 years on You Tube and it still moves me!
59ernst 2 years ago
The melody was originally written by George Frederick Root in 1864, for a song called Just Before the Battle, Mother.
louiseskid 2 years ago
I agree that it sounds a lot like like Just Before the Battle, but I hear some slight differences. Whether it's enough for a George Harrison to win a "My Dear Lord"/"he's So Fine" lawsuit - I dunno!
jonahbegone 2 years ago
so sad indeed...god bless the homeless.
bdogbriguy 2 years ago 2
Wow, that's sad, i hope god bless them :S
1701Fahed 2 years ago 2
"whoever wrote it" Ye Gods, you are not familiar with America's formost balladeer and songwriter? Read his autobiography (mostly fictional) "Bound for Glory"; read Joe Klein's bio of him: in fact read anything you can find on the man. Truly and original...
barrymore 2 years ago
poor hobos god bless them
Theblueroseninja 2 years ago
Written by Goebel Reeves. Recorded by Woody and Arlo Guthrie (separately), Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Utah Phillips (my friend and hero), and Pete Seeger (who just turned 90)
austinitesince1979 2 years ago 2
90! I'm gonna miss that generation.
womanintheworld 2 years ago
the song was written by Geobel Reeves in the 1950s, a hobo balladeerm he died alone in a Vets hospital. great song ...
mya1967 2 years ago
Seems more relevant every day. The poor we have with us always.
osusannarosen 2 years ago
Ok, duh, I see that this is his son Arlo's version
voivodian09 2 years ago
Woody Guthrie wrote this song. I don't know who sang and recorded this version though. It's almost unrecognizable compared to Woody's...which is far better.;)
voivodian09 2 years ago
nice job...just makes you be thankful for each day with a roof over your head...and something to eat in your belly.
dbeater1 2 years ago
You said you didn't know who wrote this song. I think it was written by woody guthrie, arlo's dad and a noted singer/songwriter.
chuckf2000 2 years ago
this song is from the great depression. its not bad but its not good. i dont know why people think its funny
but thanks for postingi need it for a progect
:)
ilove2shop123 2 years ago
Poor hobos. I feel bad for them
1191957 2 years ago
Thanks for posting! Great images!
corndawgz88 2 years ago
Thank You
JEMCO2008 3 years ago
sounds pretty nice there in heaven, no crime and all.
minusblame 3 years ago
The Hobo's Lullaby is one of the most beautiful songs ever been made. I've never been homeless myself, but as a truth seeker yes - I've felt like that often (cannot find any ideology to fit in or sufficient answers to certain questions). In a way I feel the whole life is about being a hobo: searching, wondering, enjoying, being able to stay, able to leave, able to keep and able to change one's mind if you been wrong, or to return back if the new road chosen proved to be a bad choice.
TheHoboAccount 3 years ago 4
the name hobo came from being a "hoe boy"they were men who tied a sack of there posesions to hoe to find work on farms the phenomnon happened at the end of the civil war and again during depression thease were the people Woody guthrie sang the song about. the word hobo means some one with their hoe looking for work. i think the meaning has been lost
bhelmey 3 years ago 3
I never knew that. I thought it was a pejorative term. Thanks.
pushiwallboy 3 years ago 2
People become homeless for a variety of reasons. We'll probably see many more soon, as a consequence of the decline of common sense values, and the acceptance of greed as the norm. Who are you to pass judgement upon people who find themselves on the road, for whatever reason? I spent some time on the road in my youth, and I met plenty like you, but fortunately even more kindly souls, who gave me a helping hand which was very welcome.
pushiwallboy 3 years ago 4
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Hobos, like many of the homeless are simply bums who don't want to work.
Yes, that may sound totally incorrect PC, but it's true. You have the drunks and the druggies, who do choose to live a lifestyle outside of society.
What's most terrible is how they take funds away from needy people who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.
But no, let's instead blame a society that gives other people the chance to advance because it doesn't drag these people with it always.
TiminPhoenix 3 years ago
I love this song!
deporox 3 years ago 2