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01:00He works and wanders, also learns and in his heart he always yearns to see beyond the river's turns, the view from rolling cars.
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04:28always funny
04:34خırsız
04:37b Bis hai
04:39mmm
04:40olduk
04:42yoldo
04:44az
04:48far
04:50like
04:52and
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07:02.
07:03Birçokal
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07:31frustrating...
07:34everything was lean and mean...
07:37no jobs...
07:38you kinda have to start with trying to get...
07:41everything from a day's work to...
07:43whatever you can get...
07:45back then...
07:46everybody had a relative a brother...
07:48son...
07:48father...
07:49an uncle...
07:50who was riding the trains...
07:52looking for for work...
07:55ahh realization...
07:55ahledes STEM HTy Undiyon...
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08:58Hobo trip I ever took was when my brother Hopalong Chet and I
09:03were going back to our grandfather's 90th reunion
09:06and we rode from Barstow, California to the East Coast to Boston.
09:12It took us 8 days and 13 different train connections
09:15and from that moment on we were hooked.
09:17I decided to make a documentary film
09:20and it was mostly the film started out as an excuse for me
09:24to figure out how to get on a freight train.
09:26So when I finally took my first ride
09:30it was everything that I had imagined it might be
09:35and it was pretty much an immediate addiction.
09:40I've been doing this since the age of 13 years old.
09:43That's, I'm telling you, the real McCoy.
09:46A friend of mine used to work for Canadian National up in Montreal
09:50and he knew I liked trains a lot.
09:52I'd always like trains going way back to when I was a little kid.
09:56and he said, you know, you might think about
09:59jumping on trains to get around.
10:01I mean, you like to travel around a lot and you like trains
10:04and that was sort of the beginning of it
10:06and I took it from there.
10:09I think the first time was an old oil spur up there
10:12where I used to live in Oildale
10:13but the first long trip I took was from Bakersfield to Fresno
10:18in the old SP.
10:18At the age of 12 or 13
10:23I was living near Philadelphia
10:26and with a partner a year older
10:31we bombed our way
10:35all the way to the Canadian border
10:38and all the way south to Florida.
10:43Every year, at a different location
10:50alongside a mainline railroad
10:52the National Hobo Association sponsors
10:56the Hobo Poetry and Music Festival.
10:59This year's site is charming Marquette, Iowa
11:01on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River.
11:04Oh, and music has always been
11:08a central component of hobo life.
11:11They'd sing of their old homes
11:12their old loves
11:13their work
11:14and their trains
11:15they'd play guitars
11:17mandolins
11:18and banjos
11:18and simpler instruments
11:20like gin whistles
11:22harmonicas
11:23and Jews' hearts.
11:24The boss set me a-driving spikes
11:43the sweat was enough to blind me
11:47the boss, he didn't like my pace
11:49so I left my job behind me
11:52I climbed aboard an old freight train
11:55round the country traveled
11:57the mysteries of a hobo's life
12:00to me were soon unraveled
12:02Yes, and the Jungle Telegraph
12:04goes out to hobos and hobos at heart
12:07in every corner of America
12:09and they come from all nooks and crannies
12:12they arrive by various modes of conveyance
12:14many by car, truck, or motorhome
12:18and, of course, the freight train.
12:22Oh, the big rock candy mountain
12:25there's a land so fair and bright
12:27where the boxcars all are empty
12:29and you sleep out every night
12:31where the handouts grow on bushes
12:33and the sun shines every day
12:35on the birds and the bees
12:36and the cigarette trees
12:37and the lemonade springs
12:38where the bluebird sings
12:39and the big rock candy mountain
12:41This fun-filled event brings out the free spirit of the hobo that lives within us all
13:03and everyone is encouraged to partake in the wide variety of family activities
13:08This retired hobo is being hounded by his alter ego
13:18to return to the rails
13:20We could hop an extra west and head out toward the coast
13:23or maybe take the valley route with the river as our host
13:26You always liked the scenery on the Colorado run
13:29or the smell of hay as the boxcars weighed in the autumn Kansas sun
13:33He said, we never rode the Chesapeake or the Seaboard or the Sioux
13:36and what about the Cotton Belt?
13:38That promise came from you
13:39You said we'd ride the Lehigh and the Wabash Cannonball
13:42and you absolutely promised we'd ride New England in the fall
13:46How long can I resist the call?
13:48I really couldn't say
13:49But the inner hobo's argument gets stronger every day
13:52Now, I'm not one for idle talk
13:54But I want the world to know
13:56that if I hear that whistle one more time
13:59I just might up and go
14:00Early in the morning and it looked like rain
14:06Around the bend coming past the train
14:08Under the camp was Casey Jones
14:10A good engineer, but he dead and gone
14:12Dead and gone, the dead and gone
14:15A good engineer, but he dead and gone
14:17Well, Casey Jones was a brave engineer
14:23He told his fireman not to fear
14:25All he needed was a water and coal
14:27Put your head out to win to see the driver's roll
14:29Hey, yeah, the driver's roll
14:31Put your head out to win to see the driver's roll
14:33Trains are marvelous contraptions under any circumstance
14:41They are unreal, shimmering steel
14:44Creatures that are almost alive
14:46Fire-breathing monsters with intense, undulating tails
14:51So what is it that lures a hobo to mount these beasts
14:55Again and again
14:57And being that I like to play music, you know
14:59There's nothing finer than sort of like the rhythm, you know
15:02You're in tune with the rhythm
15:04Not only the rails, but I get in tune with the rhythm
15:06Of waters that the trains go by
15:08The speed
15:09The power of the train
15:12All those really
15:14They really turn me on
15:15The freedom
15:16Getting away from everything
15:18Getting away from everything
15:19Not feeling like I've got to be responsible about anything
15:24Being punctual
15:25Being somewhere at an exact time
15:27Being able to just hang out
15:28Go with the train
15:29Get somewhere for free
15:30I'm getting from point A to point B
15:32And I don't have to drive
15:33I don't have to deal with inner city traffic
15:36Or anybody who's not going to let me get in my lane
15:40A nice day
15:42A good ride
15:44I like to get into a terminal too
15:46That I haven't seen before
15:47And poke around
15:48I like to do that
15:49You also go through parts of the country
15:56Unlike the interstate system
15:58That has virtually no signs of any commercial activity
16:02No billboards, no exit signs, no neon
16:06Seeing America from a boxcar
16:09You see the wild horses
16:10You see the ghost towns
16:12You see everything about America
16:15That's wonderful
16:17To be out in the open prairie
16:19Where there's nothing but beautiful land around me
16:21And I have all that solitude
16:22And all that time to think things out
16:24And get creative
16:25Seeing different parts of the country
16:27A new piece of scenery every day
16:31There are places like Idaho
16:32And Montana
16:34And Wyoming
16:35All those western places I love
16:38Those mountains are beautiful
16:40The sheer excitement of getting to new places
16:44And new experiences
16:46Just to see what I call priceless wonders
16:49Those things that drift by you
16:51When you're riding a train
16:52And the adventure doesn't end
16:55When the ride's over
16:56Breathtaking landscapes
16:58Give way to the colorful characters
17:00Who pass through the train yards
17:03The friends you meet along the way
17:06That's what keeps me going back
17:08I think more than anything
17:09They're not a nine to five office kind of person
17:12And we can sit and tell tall tales
17:15And relate to each other
17:16I really enjoy those kind of folks
17:17We're not caught up in that hustle-bustle
17:20Credit card, plastic money, car payments, concrete highways
17:23And going from the office to the club
17:26To make the scene in other words
17:27I use the hobo as a medium for my poetry
17:32And found that everybody I've met so far has a story
17:35And that helps me tremendously with my feelings
17:39The friendship of the young fellow
17:43Who took me to Canada
17:44And to Florida was precious
17:47When I started out
17:50I had my own preconceptions about
17:53Who was out riding freight trains
17:56And I thought that it was
17:57A fairly homogenous group
17:59And I think one of the things I've really learned
18:02Is that there are many different personalities
18:05That are out riding the freights
18:06And those different personalities
18:09Rarely devolves their family names
18:11Adopting unique aliases instead
18:14Everybody's road name
18:17Kind of gives in a nutshell
18:20Who they are and what they represent
18:22So I can introduce myself as Jet Set John
18:24And that kind of tells a little bit of the other side of me
18:27Rather than just being a hobo
18:29Some guys that walk along the track
18:32They might call him track man, you know
18:34And Sidecar Sam
18:36He was riding Sidecar on a tanker
18:39With his feet dangling down alongside the tank
18:43That's why I named him Sidecar Sam
18:45Then Low Line Larry
18:47He rides from Florida all the way up to Utah
18:50And he rides that Low Line
18:51So I gave him the name of Low Line
18:53Everybody has a road name
18:55I was a stranger passing through your town
19:05I was a stranger passing through your town
19:12When I ask you a favor
19:16Good girl, you turned me down
19:21Most of the time I'm alone
19:31Because I have my own destination
19:33And I have my own reason for going somewhere
19:35I love solitude
19:36I was lonely before I started riding
19:38I never got lonely anywhere
19:40I told my wife I was going on an 18 day trip
19:42She hopefully was sorry to see me go
19:46My sister and everybody
19:47They get a kick out of telling their friends what I do
19:49My brother has been with me one time
19:51But he doesn't want to do it again
19:54But he kind of likes the concept
19:55You know what I mean?
19:56My mother looks a little bit askance at it
20:00You know, like it's not the greatest thing
20:02But she understands that I enjoy it
20:03And have a good time doing it
20:04My family, I don't really tell them anymore
20:07Because you get a lot of shaking heads
20:10And shrugged shoulders
20:11And they don't really understand why I do it
20:13Since I'm a senior citizen
20:16It's kind of frowned on
20:18A lot of them think it's really neat
20:20But then there's some that just think
20:21I'm totally out of my mind
20:23Most of my friends think it sounds like fun
20:27Sounds entertaining
20:28They don't do it
20:29My friends, they're a little more understanding
20:32They tell me
20:34It's happened more than a few times
20:36That they tell me they want to come out
20:37On a ride with me
20:38And as soon as I pack up my gear
20:40And I'm ready to head out the door
20:41They seem to disappear
20:43My mother spent a lot of
20:45Worrisome years, I'm sure
20:46When I got to Dunsmire on that trip there
20:50I called her
20:50And it just so happened
20:51I had a check coming from a job
20:53That I'd worked before I left
20:54A couple months before
20:55And she sent it to me by Western Union
20:58And I got my butt on it
20:59God dang Greyhound
21:00Quitted that hoboing
21:03Outside the rain was falling
21:23On the lonely boxcar door
21:26But the little farm of hobo Bill
21:30They did upon the floor
21:34While the train sped through the darkness
21:39With a raging storm outside
21:43No one knew that hobo Bill
21:47Was taking his last ride
21:51Oh, it was always cold
22:03And stuff was always blowing in your face
22:05And I think the coldest ride
22:08I had was from Eugene, Oregon
22:12To Klamath Falls, Oregon
22:17And then on into Dunsmire
22:20But we rode over the top of the mountain
22:22There in a snowstorm
22:23And a couple other bows and myself
22:25Were in the ice compartment
22:28Back in those old 40-foot reefers
22:31If they didn't have any fruit they were carrying
22:35They'd leave those reefer tops open sometime
22:37And it was an excellent place to get
22:39If you couldn't get inside of a boxcar somewhere
22:41And that's where we were
22:42On that mountain in that snowstorm
22:45Sometimes it's just too hot
22:46You get stuck in the back end of a well car
22:50There's no way to get out of the sun
22:51And you broil to death
22:53The worst part about it would be
22:54In situations where you've run out of water
22:56And you know that it's going to be a long time
22:57Before you can find any
22:59Finding a place to take a shower
23:00Being hungry
23:01Lonesome towns
23:02Waiting, waiting, waiting
23:04What you're waiting for is when you finally catch out again
23:06And you start moving and you have that
23:08Ah, this is what I was waiting for
23:10But when you wait a long time for that
23:12I sometimes sit there and go
23:15Is this really worth it just to get on that train?
23:17This is really a pain
23:18But in the end it is always worth it
23:21Well the worst thing that I used to think
23:23Was getting a flat wheel
23:25And you're lying there trying to sleep
23:27And you're bouncing off the floor
23:28Every time that wheel goes around
23:29The railroad bull running you out of the yards
23:32Or the town clown
23:34Putting a run on you
23:36From his town
23:39And telling you to move on
23:42I get sick and tired of the bugs sometimes
23:45Some of the places I wait
23:46Slapping the bugs
23:47All of a sudden in the middle of the night
23:49Man, they'll break air
23:50And they'll leave me out in the middle of nowhere
23:51In the desert
23:52That's kind of hard
23:53The worst thing that could possibly happen
23:56For some of us
23:57Would be if they made it legal
24:00I'd like to make a little disclaimer here
24:03Just for our lawyers' sake
24:06No bail
24:07Came down to make sure we're all in line
24:09By no means does the National Hobo Association
24:12Encourage anybody to go get on a freight train
24:15It's illegal and it's dangerous
24:17During the Depression
24:21Hundreds of trespassers
24:23Invaded yards like this
24:25And risked the wrath of the railroad bull
24:28Today, it's a misdemeanor in most places
24:31The law's main concern being
24:33Vandalism of railroad property
24:35But a pesky hobo
24:37Could surely wind up in jail
24:39If the bull's warning goes unheeded
24:41Had to run alongside
24:44And follow the advice of the older men
24:49Hook a ride and get in
24:51And the railroad police
24:54Couldn't stop you from doing that
24:57Because it was just as risky for them
25:00As it was for us
25:02But they could masterfully
25:06Keep you out of the railroad yards
25:08And that's where we tangled with them
25:15Back in the old days
25:16You're going to go to the chain gang for 30 days
25:18You know
25:18Especially down south
25:21They were mean and bad
25:27Well, in the old days
25:29They used to hit you with them
25:31Brickman's Club
25:32Today, they're not too bad, I guess
25:35They didn't stop us from
25:39Getting aboard the train
25:42Slow moving
25:43And we were very agile
25:46And we had done it many times
25:48Once we broke through their lines
25:51We were on our way to Peoria
25:55They walked the train with the deputy sheriffs
25:57Pulled us off of there
25:59But it was kind of nice
26:00So like Aunt B bringing us dinner and everything
26:02You know, it was kind of fun
26:03They wrote us a ticket for trespassing on railroad property
26:05We had to spend the night in the jail
26:07And they told us to get out of town the next morning
26:08Because the DA wasn't going to prosecute it
26:10The city was too small
26:11I was never badly treated by them
26:16They saw that I was younger
26:19They were, in a sense, protective
26:23But they did not want me aboard their freight trains
26:28I got into a boxcar with about eight other hobos
26:32And I was hungry
26:33And I went down and broke the seal on one of them refrigerator cars
26:36And did the unmancipal
26:38And took a whole case of green beans out of there
26:41And I threw it up in that boxcar
26:43And those hobos went to screaming at me
26:45And said, man, we'll get 50 years in jail
26:47What are you doing breaking the seal in that boxcar?
26:49I said, they'll throw us all off this train
26:51And I said, well, at least we'll be hungry
26:53Won't be hungry
26:54And one old hobo way back in the corner of the boxcar
26:59He threw over a can opener and a spoon
27:03And he said, I'll join you, young man
27:05Hobo camps, also known as jungles
27:16Grew up near the train yards, water tanks
27:19Crew change points, anywhere locomotives stop
27:22Sooner or later, you did fall into one of the camps
27:29And very imaginative men ran them
27:34They were congenial places
27:36You didn't want to leave
27:39You made friends
27:41You heard great stories
27:43Well, I remember going into a hobo jungle
27:47One time in Barstow
27:50They had a really a large hobo camp there
27:54I participated in some community stew
27:57A couple times in my life
27:59Fit for a king
28:05Hobo stew
28:06The famous mulligan that's been made in spike cans
28:09And paint buckets under bridges
28:10And on the edge of the railroad yard since the Civil War
28:13The stew pot cooked, gurgled over the fire for days on end
28:17They just kept adding ingredients as the level went down
28:21Those jungles, they were clean
28:23They had an order
28:24They didn't throw garbage around
28:29Usually if a guy come into jungles
28:32He came there with his loaf of bread
28:36And his bologna and cheese
28:38And maybe he wanted to make a pot of coffee
28:43And wait for a train
28:46And catch out
28:48It's the townspeople that complain
28:52They complain to the police
28:53The police complain to the railroad bulls
28:55And the railroad bulls run them out
28:56And if they keep the place clean
28:59You know
29:00And pick up all their trash and stuff
29:02I don't think they'd even be bothered
29:04The jungles are being wiped out with caterpillar tractors
29:08So that there would be no place for the riders to hide
29:11There's very few jungles nowadays
29:14Go to sleep you weary hobo
29:20Let the town strip slowly by
29:26Can't you hear the steel rail humming
29:32That's a hobo lullaby
29:37Though your clothes are torn ragged
29:44Though your hair is turning grey
29:49Though you've spent a lifetime searching
29:55You'll find happiness someday
30:00So go to sleep you weary hobo
30:07Let the town strip slowly by
30:13Can't you hear the steel rail humming
30:19That's a hobo's lullaby
30:25Hobo's communicate through the National Hobo Association
30:34Founded in 1987 by Santa Fe Bow
30:38Who's been a trained barnacle since the 70s
30:41His two goals were uniting others
30:43Who shared a love of the open road
30:45And preserving the history of the hobo
30:48During his travels
30:50Santa Fe came across an old copy
30:52Of the now defunct hobo news
30:55A publication that dated back to 1908
30:59Consequently he created the hobo times
31:02America's journal of wanderlust
31:04And began distributing it to kindred spirits
31:08In 1990 Buzz Potter came on board
31:11And together they upgraded the times
31:13To the only magazine in America
31:15That features a blend of railroad adventure stories
31:19Poetry, nostalgia, and the current news
31:23Of life on the hobo trail
31:25A letter that we got from a 96 year old
31:28Former hobo
31:30Who rode back in the depression
31:32And he found out about us
31:34And he sent us a letter
31:35And it said very simply
31:36Dear National Hobo Association
31:38Please don't let the hobo die
31:41It grew slowly over the years
31:43But steadily
31:45And today we have thousands of members
31:47Nationwide
31:48That span the demographic spectrum
31:52From lawyers to laborers
31:54Professional people
31:55Corporate people
31:57They're from all walks of life
31:58And they've been where I've got to go yet
32:00And I learned from their experiences
32:03It's amazing how many people
32:05Don't realize they're hobos
32:06Until they come and see us
32:08And they realize that they're
32:09On the same wavelength with us
32:11With their kindred spirits
32:12They have the wanderlust
32:13The sense of romance
32:15And the sense of nostalgia
32:17All of a sudden we understood
32:19That there were other people like ourselves
32:21And we found out how to get a hold of them
32:23It provides a forum
32:24For us to get together
32:25And tell our tales
32:26Rather than just
32:28Maybe running into one or two people
32:29In the jungle
32:30And telling your individual experiences
32:32And to get together
32:33Occasionally
32:34And share the fellowship
32:35That was forged in early days
32:37Around campfires
32:38And remote places
32:39Throughout the country
32:40Now we're
32:41A little more respectable
32:42I guess
32:43And we get together
32:44With much better stew
32:45And much better clothes
32:46And much warmer fires perhaps
32:48But the fellowship hasn't changed
32:50We enjoy brotherhood
32:51Camaraderie
32:52We sing songs
32:53We trade photographs
32:54And addresses
32:55And we sort of get together
32:56This to me is my family
32:58We have younger people now
32:59Some of the
33:00The X generation people
33:02Who are looking for themselves
33:03Trying to find themselves
33:04I guess
33:05And part of that is
33:07Seeing America
33:08And we're trying to educate
33:10Our children
33:11And our younger folk
33:12Who might not know
33:13What a steam locomotive is
33:14And what a hobo jungle was
33:15And a mulligan stew
33:16And a pot
33:17And a frisco circle
33:18And stuff like that
33:19Terms that were used
33:20Back in the 20s
33:21And 30s
33:22And 40s
33:23Many NHA members
33:26Are devoted collectors
33:28Of hobo memorabilia
33:29George Horton
33:31Has acquired hobo artifacts
33:33Such as these
33:34Antique carvings
33:35Each whittled
33:36From a single piece of wood
33:38These whistles and chains
33:40Were formed
33:41In a similar fashion
33:42Enterprising hobos
33:44Even chiseled peach pits
33:46Into monkey trinkets
33:48Del Romines
33:50Wrote a book
33:51On hobo nickels
33:53Explaining how bows
33:54Tooled Indian head coins
33:56To match the profiles
33:58Of their paying customers
34:00They'd even reshape
34:01The buffalo image
34:02On the reverse side
34:04Drummond Manfield's art
34:06Reflects earlier days
34:08When it was pretty much
34:10A man's world
34:11Out on the road
34:12But nowadays
34:13Women are prominent members
34:15Of the hobo community
34:17We have a lot of fun
34:19Together
34:20And it becomes like
34:22Your extended family
34:23Your brothers
34:24Your sisters
34:25And you make friends
34:26For life
34:27So I love them
34:28Hoboings
34:30Definitely
34:31In Connecticut
34:32Shorty's blood
34:33Her father
34:34Was a hobo
34:35For 40 years
34:36And by no means
34:37A bum
34:38You see
34:39Real hobos
34:40Bristle
34:41At the intimation
34:42That they shunned work
34:43In fact
34:44They discreetly
34:45Mark their own
34:46Hieroglyphics
34:47Around train yards
34:48To alert each other
34:49About town
34:50Prospects
34:55An oft-repeated axiom
34:56Sums up the men
34:57On the road
34:58A hobo
35:00Is a traveling worker
35:01A tramp
35:02Is a traveling non-worker
35:05A bum
35:06Is a non-traveling
35:08Non-worker
35:09You gotta do work
35:11In order to
35:12Keep yourself
35:13Independent
35:14Traveling money
35:16Take any kind of a job
35:20Whether it's
35:21Two hours
35:22Or two days
35:23Or two months
35:24Get a road stake
35:26The western farmers
35:29Had a deal
35:31With the railroads
35:34Whereby they would
35:35Ship their cattle
35:36From the ranch
35:38To the slaughterhouse
35:40In Chicago
35:41They had to have
35:43Somebody aboard the train
35:45So that at every
35:47Twelve hour interval
35:50You stopped
35:52Unloaded the cattle
35:55Exercised them
35:57Watered them
35:58Fed them
35:59Got back aboard the train
36:02And went on to Chicago
36:03You got no money for this
36:06But you didn't get transportation
36:09We used to hay
36:11That have two cuttings
36:13Of hay a year
36:15And you're good for a week
36:19To two weeks of haying
36:20We went and caught a freight
36:22Out of Denver
36:23And went west
36:24And we wound up in Yakima, Washington
36:27And he had an ant there
36:30That had an apple orchard
36:33And he thought
36:35Well we could find that place
36:36And maybe we could pick
36:37Some apples
36:38We never found the place
36:40We had the great state
36:41Of Washington state
36:43That's the real
36:46Apple
36:47Knockin' country
36:49And we were
36:50Everybody was a hobo
36:52Back then
36:53Roadhog washed all the windows
36:54In my house
36:55Inside and out
36:56Side door had scrubbed
36:57My kitchen floor
36:58Immaculate
36:59Immaculate
37:00And they raked all the leaves
37:02In my yard
37:03It was fall
37:04Late September
37:05And that was to pay me back
37:06For the ride
37:07And the
37:08You know
37:09The little bedroom
37:10I gave them
37:11Separate from mine
37:12Of course
37:13I've done all
37:14Dug irrigation ditches
37:16Broke horses
37:17Hoed watermelon
37:19In the fields
37:20I've done just about
37:23Every kind of work
37:24You can think of
37:25I've worked in a produce
37:27Packing house
37:28Loading lettuce
37:31Bananas
37:32Stuff like that
37:33Primarily I play guitar
37:35I do a lot
37:36I do a lot of folk festivals
37:37Around the country
37:38I play veterans hospitals
37:39I do children's hospitals
37:40I try to bring a few
37:42Hundred dollars along
37:43With me on the freights
37:44When I take a trip
37:45And if I run out
37:47Or if I happen to follow
37:48With the job
37:49I'll take it
37:50I do anything from
37:51Painting
37:52Carpentry
37:53Concrete work
37:54Trimming trees
37:55And when I'm broke
37:56In between guitar gigs
37:57I go to day labor
37:58And push a wheelbarrow
37:59Dig a ditch
38:00Just anything I can
38:01You know
38:02To get by
38:03You know
38:04The average hobo
38:05Isn't gonna last long
38:06At any job
38:10Ah, today
38:11There's a new class
38:12Of unticketed passengers
38:13Who vary from
38:14The old time hobos
38:16They aren't chasing down jobs
38:18They're running from them
38:19And have come to be known
38:21As yuppie
38:22Or recreation
38:23Or recreational hobos
38:26Yuppie hobos
38:27They're
38:28They're pretty good group
38:29A lot of those guys
38:31Really do more
38:32Than their share
38:33I approve of them
38:35I'd like to see
38:36Everybody see America
38:37It's a beautiful country
38:38And there's so much
38:39That the people
38:40Don't really see
38:42Well, you know
38:43Everybody deserves a vacation
38:44These guys work hard
38:46You know
38:47They put all the big money together
38:48I mean
38:49If I could have a BMW
38:50And ride the rails
38:51And have the better of two equals
38:52I'd have a great life too
38:53They're not as generous
38:54As our old school
38:56Were
38:57And has been
38:58They're a
39:01Different breed of
39:03I'm out there
39:04Just like them
39:05Just riding the rails
39:06Seeing the country
39:07And that's
39:08Really what the real hobos
39:09Are all about
39:10I had somebody send me
39:11Fifty dollars a month
39:12That was the deal
39:13Couldn't send me more than
39:14Fifty dollars a month
39:15Unless I came back to
39:16Minneapolis
39:17And re-signed the papers
39:18Because I figured
39:19The less I'd spend
39:20The more I'd experience
39:21And so I would
39:24Go that last week
39:26You know
39:27Where I'd burn all my money
39:28And then I wouldn't have
39:29Any money for a week
39:30And I always found
39:32That the third week
39:33Of the month
39:34I had more fun
39:35As a professional pilot
39:36There is a courtesy
39:37Among airline pilots
39:39That if you present
39:40Your ID card
39:41They'll let you ride up
39:42In the cockpit
39:43And since the name
39:44Of the game
39:45Is traveling for free
39:46It's a little faster way
39:47Of getting somewhere
39:48If you don't have
39:49Quite the time
39:50Coming here
39:51I rode up in the cockpit
39:52Of a 747-400
39:53Where they offered me
39:54Their bunk room
39:55To sleep
39:56Which is just like
39:57A Pullman car
39:58So
39:59It's really
40:00A high class
40:01Hobo way of traveling
40:02I don't really think
40:04I qualify as a yuppie
40:05I mean
40:06I'm not really young
40:07And I'm not trying
40:08To be upwardly mobile
40:09I'm sort of
40:10A professional now
40:11Doing nursing work
40:12But I don't really
40:13Think anybody
40:14That knows me
40:15Would characterize me
40:16As a yuppie
40:17I don't really think
40:18I am
40:19I got no complaints
40:20About other people
40:22Having a different
40:23Approach to it
40:24Somewhat
40:25I think most people
40:26Sort of call me like
40:27A rider
40:28I guess
40:29So I got into
40:30Riding freight trains
40:31At a necessity
40:32But after I
40:33Eventually got back
40:34On my feet
40:35And got to work
40:36And got a place
40:37To live
40:38And all that
40:39Then I became
40:40Somewhat of a
40:41Recreational rider
40:42Because I just
40:43Couldn't get away
40:44From it
40:45That's common
40:46We like to steal rides
40:47Besides traveling for free
40:50The ever frugal hobo
40:52Has learned to survive
40:54When mother nature's
40:55Free lunches
40:56Most people think that
40:58Hobos went to houses
41:00For meals
41:01Or work
41:02And try and pay for them
41:03But a lot of meals
41:06Were taken from
41:07Right around here
41:08Right along trackside
41:09Here we have
41:12Plantain
41:13Which no doubt
41:15Was definitely
41:16Part of the hobo diet
41:18I know a lot of
41:20Stories I've read
41:22Hobos and other people
41:23Would always just pick up
41:24A little bit
41:25Chew on it
41:26Tastes good
41:27With other plants
41:28And between plantain
41:30With a little bit of
41:31Lemon clover flavor
41:32You can eat
41:33A great meal
41:34When I finally broke
41:35Free of money
41:36And realized
41:37That I could live off
41:38The blackberries
41:39You know
41:40And I know
41:41Where they are
41:42And the raspberries
41:43Are where they are
41:44And the other things
41:45That are around the
41:46Yards
41:47You can eat
41:48Right off the land
41:49Or the dumpsters
41:50Or whatever else
41:51A quick-witted hobo
41:52Has traditionally
41:53Added humor
41:54To his social commentary
41:55Put your lobsters
41:56In the trash
41:57Eat your pheasant
41:58While it's under glass
41:59Get into your garbage
42:00Or have no cash
42:01Little dinner
42:02I'll be gone in a flash
42:03Won't you hold them pickles
42:04Hold that lettuce
42:05Special orders
42:06They don't upset us
42:07Just as long as
42:08They would let us
42:09Dive it our way
42:10Yeah, we're gonna go
42:11Dumpsters
42:12Dive it our way
42:13Yeah, we're gonna go
42:14Dumpster diving
42:15I'm surviving
42:16My kitty cats
42:17Are thriving
42:18Today
42:19Just open the lid
42:20Have a little look
42:21It's all prepared
42:22There's no need to cook
42:23We're going dumpster diving
42:24Whoa, whoa, whoa
42:25Don't you hold them pickles
42:26Hold that lettuce
42:27Special orders
42:28They don't upset us
42:29Just as long as
42:30They would let us
42:31Dive it our way
42:33Yeah, we're gonna go
42:34Dumpster diving
42:35I'm surviving
42:36My kitty cats
42:37Are thriving
42:38Today
42:39Just open the lid
42:40Have a little look
42:41I'm surviving
42:42Whoa, whoa, hooray
42:43Don't you keep waking
42:45Can I survive
42:46Catching rides on freight trains
42:51Is notoriously dangerous
42:53Even the most seasoned hobo
42:55Will caution against novices
42:57Trying to jump on board
42:58A moving train
42:59Telling horror stories
43:00Of accidents they've witnessed
43:02Resulting in agonizing
43:04Dismemberments
43:05Or gruesome deaths
43:07One wrong move
43:09And you've ended your day
43:10And you've ended your days
43:12There were extended couplings
43:14Probably 10 or 15 feet across
43:16And the trains were moving
43:17And there were the two of us
43:19One guy would stand here
43:21And shine the light
43:22At the couplings
43:23And after he safely got across
43:25We'd leave the light on
43:26And this was at night
43:27And train maybe going
43:2850 or 60 miles an hour
43:29We'd toss the flashlight
43:31To the other guy
43:32And of course it was up to him
43:33To make sure he caught it
43:34And then in turn
43:35He would shine the light
43:36As the second guy would go
43:37Across the railings
43:38And we had to do this
43:39For about four or five cars
43:40And I think back
43:42It's probably the most foolish
43:43Thing I ever did
43:44I'd never do it again
43:46I still get goose bumps
43:47When I think about it
43:48There's dangers out there
43:49And there's no way
43:50You can avoid them
43:51And even the most experienced
43:52Veterans
43:53Cannot avoid the dangers
43:54Of riding trains
43:55I mean I just really never
43:57Travel with somebody
43:58I don't know
43:59You just
44:00You just
44:01It's just too chancy
44:03It's too chancy
44:04People
44:06Who wish you harm
44:09And want to
44:10Want to take you
44:11And rob you
44:12That's the biggest danger today
44:14It's not from the bulls
44:15And it's not from
44:16Falling off the trains
44:18Back in the old days
44:20It was nothing for
44:2110, 15 guys
44:22And a side door pullman
44:24Which is a boxcar
44:26To ride in the same car
44:27Nowadays
44:28You wouldn't
44:29Dare to ride with
44:31Strange
44:32Hobos
44:33Or anyone you didn't know
44:35You ride by yourself
44:37I was learning how to fight
44:39From a friend of mine
44:40On a boxcar one time
44:41He showed me how to
44:42Take a knife away
44:43From a guy
44:44And flip him
44:45And all that stuff
44:46He learned it
44:47In the Marine Corps I think
44:48We practiced that
44:49In a boxcar
44:50Moving about 80 miles
44:51An hour one time
44:52When it comes to
44:53Train riding
44:54You have to give that train
44:55All of your respect
44:56But the train
44:57Will never
44:58Will give you any
44:59See you can't
45:00Rely upon
45:01The train
45:02To get you where you're going
45:03Or to be a smooth ride
45:04Or a safe one
45:05I have a great concern
45:06About equipment failure
45:07I have a great concern
45:08About human error
45:09With regard to rail operations
45:11And these kinds of things
45:12I have no control over
45:13And you never know
45:14Whenever you're going
45:15To be on a train
45:16That has a crew
45:17That's gone to sleep
45:18At the throttle
45:19And next thing you know
45:20You're in a big pileup
45:21At the bottom of a hill
45:22I rode the rods
45:27From Iowa to Illinois
45:33And a more hellish experience
45:38No young fellow ever had
45:41It was horrible
45:44You set up a little protection there
45:51To keep the soot out of your face
45:54And you bounced along
45:57And you felt the ride would never end
46:01It was a descent into hell
46:04And how these men could do it
46:08Again and again and again
46:10Bewildered me
46:11No matter how long it may take us
46:15Life-threatening challenges
46:17Took our new dimensions
46:18On December the 7th, 1941
46:21The day many believed
46:23The hobo died
46:24Will win through
46:25To absolute victory
46:27No longer did Bose jungle up in Frisco
46:32Spookolo or Mini Hopeless
46:35Now it was Anzio, Normandy, and Iwo Jima
46:40And when they were welcomed back home
46:42There were jobs for everyone
46:44New automobiles
46:45And even diesel locomotives
46:47Life on the hobo trail
46:49Would indeed never be the same
46:52What will become of the hobo
46:56Whenever his time comes to die
47:03I wouldn't trade my experiences out here on the road
47:07For anybody's college education
47:10And though I never really accomplished anything
47:15By all this travel
47:17It satisfied something in me
47:20I don't know whether I was born with it
47:25But it started very young
47:27And I never stopped
47:30I got stopped
47:34But I would
47:36Look right now to be in one of those hobo camps
47:42Will they tell us
47:43That we cannot ride
47:44Will the hobo come with the rich man
47:57Will the hobo survive
47:58Or will he go the way of the steam train?
48:01We wonder
48:03If you think about how many lifestyles
48:10Or how many businesses
48:13Or whatever have lasted 150 years
48:16There's not very damn many of them
48:18And yet hobo continues to be with us
48:20The day is coming when we won't be able to ride freight trains
48:23This is not the 30s or the 40s anymore
48:26But that doesn't mean that it still isn't an alluring prospect
48:29For people of adventurous souls
48:31As long as there's trains
48:32There's going to be people riding them
48:33I can guarantee you that
48:34With a strong railroad industry
48:36You're going to have plenty of trains
48:38And you're going to have more people riding them
48:40I had a dream about a train
48:42That was completely hobo proof
48:44There was no possible way you could jump on it
48:46In fact it was just so slick
48:48There was no grab irons
48:49There was nothing
48:50I don't know if the rail industry is going to go that far
48:52And design cars exclusively to keep people off of them
48:56It's really getting a lot tougher
48:57A lot of railroad corporations are merging together
49:00Security is tightening up a lot
49:02Because there's a few idiots out there derailing trains
49:05It might get harder again to hop freights
49:07It might get easier
49:08But it will always be here
49:11There's not going to be too much of it in the future I'm afraid
49:14Because
49:15Well they seem to get pretty tough on hobos now
49:19There's just more and more poor people
49:22I'm sorry to say
49:23I think there's going to be more and more poor people
49:26They may be back on the trains again
49:28Going around looking for odd jobs
49:30I think maybe the hobo is pretty much gone in the east
49:35But in the west he will live
49:37The old hobos now are too old to travel
49:41They're becoming homeboys now
49:43They just stay in one location
49:45They don't travel no more
49:47I think we'll always have heavy duty rail riders
49:50People that want to ride freights and go for the adventure
49:52But the old
49:54Bridger steam train hobo
49:56They're pretty much gone
49:57We're losing a few more every year
49:59And my era of
50:02Hobos
50:04They're vastly
50:07Dying out
50:09The real hobo
50:10Is a dying breed
50:11A guy out there
50:12Who's
50:13Who's trying to get by
50:14Going from town to town
50:15Looking for work
50:16A real gentleman
50:17Honest fellow
50:18Is a hobo
50:19I have a sinking feeling in my heart
50:21That the day of the hobo is about over
50:23I think it's a fading game
50:26There's a legacy that will always live on
50:29And it will change with the different groups who are out there
50:32But as long as there's a rail to ride
50:34I think someone will be riding it
50:36The future could be pretty bright actually
50:39If a young man should want a hobo in this country
50:42It might be the way to go
50:44I think there will always be
50:47Young men like me
50:52Who are a little bit
50:56A thwart civilization
51:01I've been a loner
51:03I've been
51:04My own man
51:06Fiercely so
51:09Hey, now come now
51:12All you ramparts
51:14All you travelers on the road
51:18Well the time has come
51:21To remember what you're going
51:24Like where do you come from
51:29And where do you think you're going
51:33I don't know how any of the bows ride the trains these days
51:50For the simple reason they got all the ladders cut off
51:53And uh
51:54You say to yourself
51:55Well how do they get up there?
51:57You know
51:58But they do
51:59And they make their way
52:01And they're still hobo
52:03And all around the country
52:04God bless them
52:05See you down the road
52:09All around the water tanks
52:16Waiting for a train
52:19A thousand miles away from home
52:24Sleeping in the rain
52:27I walked up to a brakeman
52:32To give him my talk
52:35He says
52:37If you've got money
52:39I'll see that you don't walk
52:43I haven't got a nickel
52:47Not a penny can I show
52:51Get off
52:52Get off
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