Ramblin' Reckless Hobo

A ramblin' reckless hobo
 Left his happy home
 Wandered away from his parents dear
 To ramble and to roam
 His father warned and his mother prayed
 His sweetheart begged him to stay
 But none could keep this reckless boy
 From ramblin' far away
 You see him down in a railroad town
 His head hung down in shame
 A bottle of rum to end his gloom
 He sets in a gamblin' game
 His life is filled with crime now
 His thoughts go back to home
 And all the ones who beg'd him not
 To ramble and to roam
 Upon a moonless midnight
 He robbed a travelin' man
 The jury gave him twenty-one years
 In a jail in Birmingham
 His father's advice his mother's prayers
 His sweetheart's tears were vain
 They never knew what became of him
 For he never wrote home again
 Now all you boys remember
 These words I'm tellin' you
 Don't ever forsake your loved ones
 Or your parents kind and true
 Remember wherever you travel
 Wherever you may roam
 You'll never find what you left behind
 Your loved ones and your home