MEN ALL WANT TO BE HOBOS

by John Hartford
Down On the River Album
Flying Fish Label 1989
Chords tabbed by:  Verne Garrison
October 7, 2008
Lyrics from Riverboat Annie Mud Cat


Men All Want to Be Hobos


   [D]
She needs a man to hold her hand

and love her tender care

He wants to know when he comes and goes
        [G]                 [D]
that she will stay right there
    [G]
He really wants to be a hobo
                     [D]
the road he wants to fill
   [D]             
While she stays home and bakes the pies   
          [A]                    [D]
and leaves them on the windowsill

    [D]
Shes a faithful wife and she gives her life
          [G]              [D]
and will die for just one man
                                     
while a rambler tries to be a gambler
       [G]                     [D]
and love as many women as he can
     [G]                            
and so he flows and rows and grows
                  [D]
to know a hobos cure

But a hobos cure is a woman's lure
       [A]              [D]
that pie on the windowsill

        [G]               [D]
She gives to him and he receives
        [G]              [D]      
They love and then he leaves
        [G]                 [D]         
He lies and cries and says goodby
     [E7]                 [A]
Little darling don't you grieve
    [D]                     
So he roams and she stays home
        [G]                [D]
and does what a woman will
                                 
dries her eyes and bakes her pies
           [A]                  [D]
and leaves them on the windowsill

                                   
She gives to him and he receives
       [G]               [D]
they love and then he leaves

He lies and cries and says goodbye
  [E7]                    [A]
little darling don't you grieve

   [D]
So he roams and she stays home
          [G]            [D]
and does what a woman will

dries her eyes and bakes her pies
           [A]                  [D]
and leaves them on the windowsill