{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":954235,"song":"Hobos Prayer","artist":"Marty Stuart","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11617221-hobos-prayer-chords-by-marty-stuart/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/954235?type=chord","rating":4.52012,"votes":7,"content":"Tuning: Down one semi-tone\r\nCapo: None\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]           \r\nUnder bridges, beneath trestles, in the boxcars of dead trains[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nLivin' to beat the cold, of the pourin' drivin' rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA silent society moves out in the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]                                    [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nRagged rebels, homeless hobos, and those like me, who've lost the light.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSaint Peter is a prophet, to all the hobo world[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch] \r\nAn expert on everything, from caviar to girls[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI met him west of Memphis, on the eighth of July[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe handed me a can of beans, and a rusty knife.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]F#m[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd he said \"Everything out here ain't what it seems[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#m[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd when you're down to nothin' just go ahead and dream[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd face the fact that you're a circle, in a world full of squares,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTradin' sorrows for tomorrows, that's the hobo's prayer.[/tab]\r\n\r\nMother Mary is a lady, from down in New Orleans\r\nShe's seen a lot of livin', since she was seventeen,\r\nShe said \"I'm bona fide and worldly wise, with original parts,\r\n'Cept for what set me to travellin', I'm talkin' about my heart\"\r\n\r\nShe said \"I can spot a broken heart from twenty miles away.\r\nSo are you passin' through, or have you come to stay?\"\r\n\"You're runnin' from a woman\", she said with a grin,\r\n\"So what've you got to say?\" And I said: \"I am a Pilgrim\"\r\n\r\nWhere everything out here ain't what it seems\r\nAnd when I'm down to nothin' I just go ahead and dream\r\nAnd face the fact that I'm a circle, in a world full of squares\r\nTradin' sorrows for tomorrows, and that's the hobo's prayer.","plain_text":"Tuning: Down one semi-tone\nCapo: None\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMother Mary is a lady, from down in New Orleans\nShe's seen a lot of livin', since she was seventeen,\nShe said \"I'm bona fide and worldly wise, with original parts,\n'Cept for what set me to travellin', I'm talkin' about my heart\"\n\nShe said \"I can spot a broken heart from twenty miles away.\nSo are you passin' through, or have you come to stay?\"\n\"You're runnin' from a woman\", she said with a grin,\n\"So what've you got to say?\" And I said: \"I am a Pilgrim\"\n\nWhere everything out here ain't what it seems\nAnd when I'm down to nothin' I just go ahead and dream\nAnd face the fact that I'm a circle, in a world full of squares\nTradin' sorrows for tomorrows, and that's the hobo's prayer.","chords":["D","Bm","A","C","F","F#m","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}