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Beat Up Old Hobo

from Steel Audrey by Steel Audrey

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When I was a young boy, some lady thought I was a girl
She asked my younger sister, "who's your younger sister little girl?"
Well I cut my hair that very day, and my daddy taught me how to use a razor blade
I grew myself a beard, and when I was fifteen I had it in a braid

And by 17 I was headed west, just a hobo on a train
I got myself a job pouring concrete on the docks down by the bay

When I was a young man, somebody told me I looked stoned
He asked me for a hit of it, but I told him "I'm afraid I'm running low"
He didn't like the sound of that, so he grabbed my long blonde hair and he told me so!
He kicked my ass so bad that day, that I hopped a train and I rode the railroad home

By 25 I was headed East, just a beat up hobo on a train
But I knew my Ma would take me back if I cut my long blonde hair and got a shave

Now I am an old man, but I ain't learned that much at all
I got grey hair 'til my shoulders, and my beard has been the cause of many brawls
Now my momma, she don't like me.
And my daddy always said that I was slow
But I blame it on the whiskey, and all those crazy things that got me stoned

I've been sober for a year now, but I've been sober for a year before
I'm just a beat up old hobo, and that whiskey is my only hope
I'm just a beat up old hobo, and that railroad is my only home
I'm just a beat up old hobo, a beat up old hobo
I'm just a beat up old hobo, a beat up old hobo

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from Steel Audrey, released July 3, 2012

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Steel Audrey Vancouver, British Columbia

Steel Audrey is a country-folk artist with a “rustic, old world sound packaged inside the cargo car of a freight train...” (Songoid). His ability to tell a story through song is reminiscent of Kristofferson, Dylan and Springsteen. His blue-collar origins are evident in both narrative and delivery .."extra powerful and raspy... It’s not a pretty picture, but then, life never is.” (Greyowl Point) ... more

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