Name: Hobo's Dream
Channel: Graham Henderson
Description: "Hobo's Dream" is a song by Graham Henderson. Bit of frantic fun in G twix the harp and me.

Hobo's Dream

Graham Henderson

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Bit of frantic fun in G twix the harp and me.

been there virgin sand ou

Graham Henderson

Strictly a demos only performer <br />Jam at live gigs sometimes and have a whole lotta fun doing it

I am writer, and general Mister Nice Guy. I am not a performer but manage to squeak out stuff good enough for others to hear and do better with. Lucky for you lot. I get a few other people to sing and play some of my stuff. I do make Karaoke tracks of my songs and perform them every Saturday night, trotting twix the two local pubs that do karaoke. I have a whole heap more fun than doing covers all the time. Most weeks having at least one new song to try out on the punters. Have seven recorded and getting airplay. And not only on my show Roar Radio either. Backing music for Born To Be Blue is now on a video showing the Esperance service providers. Out soon. More later.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Bluegrass

Charts

Peak #889

Peak in subgenre #79

Author

Graham Henderson

Rights

Graham Henderson APRA

Uploaded

June 20, 2002

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Bob Young wrote a song called I need a train and I first heard it at 3 am i the morning just as an iron ore train tooted that thing they call a horn and i said "Not that sorta train Cobber.
I got lost singing and adlibbed a bit. What voice I got was long gone so I decided to call it a demo for the moment.

Lyrics

Hobo’s Dream
© Copyright APRA Graham Henderson 2002 
I hear the tuneless blastin’
Of a diesel train.
As it groans on down the line.
Blowin’ it’s refrain.
And Lord it made me wish I was.
Born some hundred years ago
‘Cos diesel horn don’t do it
Like whistles used to do

I want to hear a freight train.
Wailin’ fit to die.
Yeah, want to hear a freight train.
Wailin’ fit to die.
Want hear the lonesome whistle.
And see steam blowin’ high

Chorus
Well I never was a hobo.
But I got a hobo’s dream.
Of ridin’ rails forever.
On a horse that runs on steam.
Take me to where I’m goin’.
And take me back again.
Thinkin’ bout it makes me sad.
And gets me yodellin’
Yodel a la Jimmy Rogers into an instrumental

I ain’t never been to prison.
But I’m a prisoner of life.
Locked to job and mortgage.
And of course the wife.
But that don’t have to mean.
A man can’t  have a dream.
And I tell ya when I do.
Whoo Whoo I dream of steam.

I want to hear a freight train.
Wailin’ fit to die.
Yeah, want to hear a freight train.
Wailin’ fit to due.
Want hear the lonesome whistle.
And see steam blowin’ High.
Chorus
No I never was a hobo.
But I got a hobo’s dream.
Of ridin’ rails forever.
On a horse that runs on steam.
Take me to where I’m goin’.
And take me back again.
Thinkin’ bout it makes me sad.
And gets me yodellin’
Tag
Yeah, I may not be a hobo. But I got a hobo’s dream.
And I sure get lonesome when I dream of  wailin’ steam.
And I long  to see smoke streamin’ to hear that scream again.
And I tell ya.Lord. I could use a train

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