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I wrote this song around 2011 and recorded it on the Westfall Mountain album with Mike Mountain and Brandon Williams one pizza and beer filled day in June of 2012.

Here's the music video filmed in various places across Canada:
youtu.be/FPlTo1LluVk

Live version with Mike Mountain and Brandon Williams in New Westminster, B.C.
youtu.be/EhERPYZ-5F8

Live version from the U Bein Bridge in Mandalay, Myanmar:
youtu.be/PP_BaV8fuFo

lyrics

THE HOBO SONG

Oh how I'd love to be a hobo and live in a shack
A little run down shanty by an old railroad track
The rumble of a midnight train to rock me as I dream
Asleep by the light of a silvery moon beam

I'd forsake everything I own to travel this land
Harmonica in my pocket and a guitar in my hand

Oh how I'd love to be a hobo and bum on down the line
Spending what I ain't got on women and wine
Playing my hand in poker games, dealing stud
Passing out and waking up face down in the mud

I'd forsake everything I own to travel this land
Harmonica in my pocket and a guitar in my hand

Oh how I'd love to be a hobo and live by my own rules
I wouldn't answer to anyone or be nobody's fool
To feel the ground beneath my feet, knowing that I'm free
To walk the walk and talk the talk, sounds alright by me

I'd forsake everything I own to travel this land
Harmonica in my pocket and a guitar in my hand

Oh how I'd love to be a hobo, a real rambling man
Got no interest, ain't my business being a family man
I'd be drifting 'round and singing the hobo's lullaby
'Til the day I climb aboard that freight train in the sky

I'd forsake everything I own to travel this land
Harmonica in my pocket and a guitar in my hand

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from LIVE & LO​-​FI @ THE ACT (2018), released January 1, 2019
Words & music by Bob Westfall
(c) copyright Bob Westfall 2019

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