Rod Stewart – Only A Hobo (Guitar)

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As recorded by Rod Stewart (From the 1970 Album GASOLINE ALLEY) [Intro] G [Verse 1]
G                           C          G
As I was out walking on the corner one day

                            D
I spied an old hobo, in the doorway he lay

    G                           C             G
His face was all covered in the cold sidewalk floor

                              D              G
I guess he'd been there for a whole night or more
[Chorus]
       C                G
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone

                  D
Leaving nobody to carry it on

C                 G
Leaving nobody to sing his sad song

                 C           G
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
[Interlude] G [Verse 2]
G                      C           G
A blanket of newspaper covered his head

                             D
The step was his pillow, the street was his bed

    G                           C              G
One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come

                                  D               G
And a fistful of money showed the coins that he'd bummed
[Chorus]
       C                G
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone

                  D
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song

C                 G
Leavin' nobody to carry it on

                 C           G
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
[Interlude] G [Verse 3]
G
Does it take much of a man

         C             G
To see a whole life go down

G
To look on the world

       D
From a hole in the ground

    G
Too late for your future

       C                 G
Like a horse that's gone lame

G
To lie in the gutter

    C           G
And die with no name
[Chorus]
       C                G
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone

                  D
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song

C                 G
Leavin' nobody to carry it on

                 C           G
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
[Outro] G