Utah Phillips – Yuba City chords

  A                 EI came into Yuba as soon as I read
   D                        AOf all of those twenty-five hobos found dead
  A                       DI came in to find out if one of the slain
            A           E           ACould have answered to my brother's name
   A                        EIt might be your brother, I just couldn't say
   D                         AWe hire lots of floaters who work by the day;
    A                    DNow I see his photo they might be the same
      A         E           ABut I never did ask him his name

           A                   EChorus: If I had a list and if I only knew
    E                          AI'd write down their names and sing them to you
    A                    DAnd when I got done, I'd sing them again
         A             E         ASo you'd all know each one had a name
 A                    EHe had a room and ran out on the rent
 D                       AHired on a crew, I don't know where he went
   A                  DIf I knew his boss, I might make a claim
      A          E             ABut I never did write down his name

   A                         EHe stopped for a drink every now and again
 D                             ADidn't look no different than hundreds of men;
    A                          DYou know these old winos, they all look the same
   A         E           ANo reason to ask him his name
   A                         EIt might have been Shorty, a feller I knew
   D                              AWe bunked in the empties when the season was through
    A                         DYou know, I been thinking, it sure is a shame
  A         E           AI never did ask him his name

   A                  EWe always abandon the old for the new
    D                      AAnd second-hand people get thrown away, too;
  A                       DI know it won't help, but still it explains
    A         E            AWhy no one remembers their names