歌手:Johnny Cash
专辑:《Simply the Best Of…》

Riding on the eastbound freight train
Speeding through the night
Hobo Bill a railroad bum
Was fighting for his life
The sadness of his eyes revealed
The torture of his soul
He raised a weak and weary hand
To brush away the coal.
No warm lights flickered round him
No blankets there to hold
Nothing but the howling wind
That the driving rain so cold
When he heard a whistle blowing
In a dreamy kind of way
The hobo seemed contented
For he smile there where he lay

Outside the rain was falling
On the lonesome boxcar door
But the little form of Hobo Bill
Lay still upon the floor
And the train sped through the darkness
And the raging storm outside
No one knew that Hobo Bill
Was taking his last ride

It was early in the morning
When they raised the hobo's head
The smile still lingered on his face
But Hobo Bill was dead
There was no mother longing
To soothe his weary soul
For he was just a railroad bum
Who died out in the cold