Heard about a guy who walked down his wedding aisle to this song. That made me smile.
In earlier versions, the lyric "drifter" was sung as "hobo". Lyrically, I prefer drifter. It suggests a little more mystery. They might be running from persecution or working towards an unorthodox goal. A hobo just sounds lazy.
Just ran a search to clarify my understanding of the term "hobo". Mencken defined it as a traveling worker without a home. He also said a "tramp" was a hobo who only works enough to get by & a "bum" was someone who never works at all.
Hobo/tramp sounds like a distinction without a difference. Is a traveling worker really doing more than the bare minimum? Probably not. Which is why we use the 2 terms interchangeably.
Heard about a guy who walked down his wedding aisle to this song. That made me smile.
In earlier versions, the lyric "drifter" was sung as "hobo". Lyrically, I prefer drifter. It suggests a little more mystery. They might be running from persecution or working towards an unorthodox goal. A hobo just sounds lazy.
Just ran a search to clarify my understanding of the term "hobo". Mencken defined it as a traveling worker without a home. He also said a "tramp" was a hobo who only works enough to get by & a "bum" was someone who never works at all.
Hobo/tramp sounds like a distinction without a difference. Is a traveling worker really doing more than the bare minimum? Probably not. Which is why we use the 2 terms interchangeably.