John Hartford - Men All Want To Be Hobos Chords

MEN ALL WANT TO BE HOBOS

Down On the River Album
Flying Fish Label 1989
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