Hobo

my grandfather was a Hobo for a while in the 30's..
"Hobo" is not a word used in our time..
he wanted to see the country before he went to work,
they were poor,
and the only way to do this was to hop trains,
he did it for a year..
a young man from Mississippi on the rails,
he talked about the community of Hobo's..
cool nicknames..
"Muleskinner", "Patch", "Singer", "Irish",
"Mose", to name a few..
he was called "Mississippi"..
he heard music he had never heard before,
saw terrain he had never seen before,
met criminals more famous than anyone else of the time,
saw snow in Chicago so deep it was taller than he was,
he slept in the box car when he could,
but many nights were spent on the ground near a fire..
he came back home and went to work,
for the next 50 years..
thankful for his time on the rails..

wkm
Nashville