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Tuning: Down one semi-tone
Capo: None
Under brDidges, beneath trestles, in the boxcars of dead trains
LBmivin' to beat the cold, of the pourin' drivin' rain
A siDlent society moves out in the night
Ragged rBmebels, homeless hobos, and those like Cme, Fwho've lost the lDight.
Saint PeDter is a prophet, to all the hobo world
An exBmpert on everything, from caviar to girls
I mDet him west of Memphis, on the eighth of July
He haBmnded me a can of beans, aCnd a ruFsty kDnife.
And he said "EvF#merything out hGere ain't what it seDems
And wF#mhen you're down to noGthin' just Dgo ahead and drAeam
And face the fDact that you're a circle, in a world full of squares,
Tradin' soFrrows for tomCorrows, that's the hobo's prDayer.
Mother Mary is a lady, from down in New Orleans
She's seen a lot of livin', since she was seventeen,
She said "I'm bona fide and worldly wise, with original parts,
'Cept for what set me to travellin', I'm talkin' about my heart"
She said "I can spot a broken heart from twenty miles away.
So are you passin' through, or have you come to stay?"
"You're runnin' from a woman", she said with a grin,
"So what've you got to say?" And I said: "I am a Pilgrim"
Where everything out here ain't what it seems
And when I'm down to nothin' I just go ahead and dream
And face the fact that I'm a circle, in a world full of squares
Tradin' sorrows for tomorrows, and that's the hobo's prayer.

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Hobos Prayer

by Marty Stuart

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Chords in this song · guitar

F#m

Tuning: Down one semi-tone

Capo: None

Under bridges, beneath trestles, in the boxcars of dead trains

Livin' to beat the cold, of the pourin' drivin' rain

A silent society moves out in the night

Bm C F D

Ragged rebels, homeless hobos, and those like me, who've lost the light.

Saint Peter is a prophet, to all the hobo world

An expert on everything, from caviar to girls

I met him west of Memphis, on the eighth of July

Bm C F D

He handed me a can of beans, and a rusty knife.

F#m G D

And he said "Everything out here ain't what it seems

F#m G D A

And when you're down to nothin' just go ahead and dream

And face the fact that you're a circle, in a world full of squares,

F C D

Tradin' sorrows for tomorrows, that's the hobo's prayer.

Mother Mary is a lady, from down in New Orleans

She's seen a lot of livin', since she was seventeen,

She said "I'm bona fide and worldly wise, with original parts,

'Cept for what set me to travellin', I'm talkin' about my heart"

She said "I can spot a broken heart from twenty miles away.

So are you passin' through, or have you come to stay?"

"You're runnin' from a woman", she said with a grin,

"So what've you got to say?" And I said: "I am a Pilgrim"

Where everything out here ain't what it seems

And when I'm down to nothin' I just go ahead and dream

And face the fact that I'm a circle, in a world full of squares

Tradin' sorrows for tomorrows, and that's the hobo's prayer.

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