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Hobo in My Mind

G   C   G   D7   G


G                     C
Up on Smoky Mountain, drinking from a soda fountain,
G                                          D7
That's where I was when I was a hobo in my mind.
G                                   C
Hoppin' freights and pickin' dates, gobblin' beans from old tin plates,
   G                                   D7         G
It seems like years since I was just a hobo in my mind.


   D               C              G                 G/F#
It did no harm, it set my mind to dreamin' of a way
   Em                               A7              D7
To get my hands on something that I had to find someday.
G                   C
Far beyond Chicago, somewhere where the longest trains go,
G                               D7         G
That's where I was when I was a hobo in my mind.

Me and a couple of buddies, we didn't care if our shoes got muddy.
We didn't care where the trains were bound - we'd ride them rascals blind.
Oh, maybe I was crazy, maybe just my foolish ways,
But that's where I was when I was a hobo in my mind.

It did no harm, it set my mind to thinkin' of a way
To get my hands on something that I had to find someday.
Far beyond Chicago, somewhere where the longest trains go,
That's where I was when I was a hobo in my mind.
Far beyond Chicago, somewhere where the longest trains go,
That's where I was when I was a hobo in my mind.

(Words and music by Tom Paxton, 1973)

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