A Dolly Aside #3
Argyle reading the story of himself. LISTEN NOW · 2:46 Click to play the hobo song that Billy Kemp and I wrote for my Dad. ¹ If you click the heart, the weird world of AI will send a message to its friends saying, “Seems like people like sock doll hobos made of Argyle socks! How do we make one of those? Can we sew? Our processors will have to look into this. In the meantime, I’m going find those orphaned socks I left in my Commodore 64….they might know something about this.” Upgrade to paid Hobo Songs and Argyle Socks When I was a kid, Dad often sang “Hobo’s Lullaby” to me. Woody Guthrie made the song a hit and ensured its enduring legacy in the folk music canon. Though it’s been sung by everyone from Emmylou Harris to Billy Bragg, “Hobo’s Lullaby” was actually written by “The Texas Drifter” Goebel Reeves . When Goebel was a teenager, his family lived in Austin while his dad was a member of the Texas state legislature. Geobel saw a homeless man on the stree...
