![]() His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floorĪnd I guess he’d been there for the whole night or moreįrom here on the song covers a few more details of the poverty of the man’s existenceĪs the curb was his pillow, the street was his bed This version by Bob, has an introduction all of its own, and the “1962” inscription.Īnd by way of comparison here is “A tramp on the street”Īnd the song, here recorded by the Carter Family which is often considered as the origin of the whole sequence of songs mentioned above…ĭylan’s words are not particularly original or well drawn but for sheer emotive appeal within such a simple format it is hard to fault the work… Here’s a beautiful modern version of Only a Miner Leaving his wife and dear children alone. Their mining’s all over, poor miners farewell! Killed by some accident, there’s no one can tell, So often while mining they meet their sad fate. Poor hard working miners, their troubles are great, A later variant was recorded by Aunt Molly Jackson… “Only a miner killed” had lyrics by John Wallace Crawford (known as Captain Jack). Here we need to think back to songs like “Only a Miner Killed”, or “Poor Miner’s Farewell,” as well as songs such as “A tramp on the street”. Related to the character in “One too many mornings.”Īnd just as the theme is very old in music, so is the music itself. So the hobo is another of Dylan’s themes, closely related to the blues singer who plays enough to earn food and drink for the night and is on once again. This song takes us back to Man on the Street and forward to the Loneseome Hobo and ultimately with a different perspective Drifter’s Escape – in which the drifter, the hobo, finally wins through and those who treat him with disdain and indifference (the cursed jury of Drifter’s Escape) get their comeuppance. For copyright reasons the song is credited to Blind Boy Grunt. We also know that in March 1963, Dylan recorded the song at Broadside’s office, with Broadside then releasing it on the album, Broadside Ballads, Volume I. “Mimeographed copy of sheet music to the song ‘Only a Hobo,’ 8.5 x 11, signed at the bottom in pencil, “Bob Dylan ‘63” adding a line from the song, “He was only a Hobo, but one more is gone!” This page was described in the auctioneer’s catalogue when sold as… ![]() I know it is hard to read on the screen but this certainly seems to say 1963. Now I am sticking with 1963 for the moment, despite the existence of the recording said to be from 1962 because of the sheet music. It eventually was released on the Bootleg 1-3 album. We know that it was recorded on Augas part of the sessions for the “Times they are a changing” album, but was not used. I have “Only a Hobo” down as a 1963 composition, but there is a recording on the internet which lists it as 1962. ![]()
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