Hobo Cartoon - Sturgill Simpson

Wish I was riding the steam train, right out of the pages of time

Down through the ol' Roaring Twenties, to the fall of 1929

Back in heyday of railroads, before airplanes fluttered and flew

Color me in like a cartoon hobo doing what bums used to do

Songs from the great Jimmy Rogers

Hearing ol' Bing Crosby croon

This is a song of how things used to be

A script of a hobo cartoon

Show me hopping a freight train, somewhere south of the yard

Make it a Santa Fe boxcar, paint all rusty and hard

Sketch out an old hobo jungle, make it come alive on the page

Build an old shack, down on the track weathr it heavy with age

Songs from the grat Jimmy Rogers

Hearing ol' Bing Crosby croon

This is a song of how things used to be

And a script of a hobo cartoon

Sometimes things are great to remember, some are too good to forget

Things back then were so different, some things we think of them yet

Songs from the great Jimmy Rogers

Hearing ol' Bing Crosby croon

This is a song of how things used to be

And a script of a hobo cartoon