Jesus Is A Hobo - Charlie Parr

Jesus is a hobo on a fast freight outta Denver, huddled up under a twin stack

his back

Against the rain.

He’s hoping to make the west coast his food is running low.

He’s been

Traveling on these roads for 2000 years or more

Yr gonna need me, yr gonna need me

But can you find me, where you look

Yr gonna need me, yr gonna need me

You can’t always see the truth

Jesus is a hobo in a jungle near LA, where nobody really knows him even if they

know

His face.

They’ll stare into his eyes a disciple from the past but the moment’s

gone and

Lost in the engine’s long low whine.

Jesus is a hobo he never left us here,

caught a fast

One from Calvary and he’s been riding ever since

Yr gonna need me, yr gonna need me

But can you find me, where you look

Yr gonna need me, yr gonna need me

You can’t always see the truth

Jesus is a hobo riding south outta St. Paul seeing a cathedral through the

snowflakes

And bracing against the cold.

When he gets down to Rock Island maybe there he’ll

Let ‘em know that underneath his coveralls he wears a purple robe

Yr gonna need me, yr gonna need me

But can you find me, where you look

Yr gonna need me, yr gonna need me

You can’t always see the truth