When I Started Hoboing - Lighnin' Hopkins

Show me where to cut his throat boys, man 'cause I’m gonna kill him dead

He hadn’t been a Hobo

I wouldn’t done nothin' with him

Well I first started hobo’in, bo’in, bo’in…

I take a freight train to be my friend, oh Lord

My little baby, I wonder why she do it

My baby she followed me

She followed me one mornin', one mornin'

Down to the train oh Lord

Oh if I don’t see you, see ya tomorrow, tomorrow

You will be my end, oh Lord, Yes!

I was standin' at the station

When that big train turned around the bend

My baby leavin' on that train

I said I may not see you in God knows when

Then I had to holler

My baby’s gone, my baby’s gone, my baby’s gone

To ne’re return no more

Oh Lord, oh Lord that sweet little woman, that I had

Oh man in my life before

Say it just a minute and just get it out a minute…