Hobo Jungle

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Hobo Jungle - the blues ballad of the Canadian band The Band. The song was released on a single, with Ophelia in 1976. It entered the album Northern Lights - Suthern Cross in 1975.

Hobo is a homeless man, a vagabond who has traveled around the United States for free in freight trains, and hobo jungle is a slang name for a vagrant stop.

The song tells the story of the tragedy that followed the cold in the vagabonds. Extreme situations are accompanied by existential reflection about life on the road: And while nobody is really know where they are goin ', at the very same time nobody's lost (although no one knew where he was going, just then no one was missing). Soon after, we hear the story of one of Hobos's life: He was a stray bird and the road was his callin ', ridin' the roads, sleepin 'under the stars, playin' the odds from a rollin 'box car the road was his singing, he rode the highways, slept under the stars, played with fate in his old frisky car. The song ends with an optimistic accent: the beloved comes to the funeral of the hero of the song, recalling the common experience of freedom.

Richard Manuel played the piano. He also took the role of vocal. Words were written by Robbie Robertson.

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