Only A Hobo Lyrics - Stan Ridgway

I spied an old hobo, in the doorway he lay 

His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor 

An' I guess he'd been there for the whole night or more 

Chorus: 

(he was) only a hobo, but one more is gone 

Leaving nobody to sing his sad song 

Leaving nobody to carry him home 

He was 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 

An' a fistful of coins showed the money he'd bummed 

Chorus repeat 

Does it take much of a man to see his whole life go down 

To look up in the world from a whole 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 

Chorus repeat