| The hobo is a reocurring subject in the Jimmie Rodgers songs
| El vagabundo es un tema recurrente en las canciones de Jimmie Rodgers
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| Hoboing was an accepted form of travel for the migrant worker
| Hoboing era una forma aceptada de viaje para el trabajador migrante
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| Or for the unemployed who simply wanted a change of weather
| O para los desempleados que simplemente querían un cambio de clima
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| And during the period of Jimmie’s greatest popularity
| Y durante el período de mayor popularidad de Jimmie
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| You could set your watch by the highbawl of any train
| Podrías programar tu reloj por el alboroto de cualquier tren
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| Hoboing was an inexpensive almost sure way of getting from one place to
| Hoboing era una forma barata y casi segura de ir de un lugar a otro.
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| another and during the peak of the depression it was not unusual to see
| otro y durante el pico de la depresión no era raro ver
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| Oh half a hundred bo’s jump from a train just as it came into the outskirts
| Oh, medio salto de cien bo desde un tren justo cuando llegaba a las afueras
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| of a city. | de una ciudad. |
| They’d jump off a soon as they could so as to ditch the trainbulls
| Saltarían tan pronto como pudieran para deshacerse de los toros del tren
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| of the oncoming yard. | del patio que se aproxima. |
| But many quite respectable men find it convenient to
| Pero muchos hombres bastante respetables encuentran conveniente
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| hop trains also and many of them died identified only as a railroad bum
| trenes de salto también y muchos de ellos murieron identificados solo como un vagabundo del ferrocarril
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| And I would imagine that hobo Bill was one of them… | Y me imagino que el vagabundo Bill era uno de ellos... |