Hobo's Lullaby (album)

ReleasedApril 1972

RecordedOctober–December 1971

Length37:20

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Billboard	(favorable)^[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+^[3]
The New York Times	(favorable)^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]

Hobo's Lullaby is an album by the American folk singer Arlo Guthrie.^[5] It was released in 1972 on Reprise Records. It was re-released on Rising Son Records in 1997. The album contains Guthrie's only Top 40 hit, a cover of Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans".

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Anytime"	Herbert Lawson	1:46
2.	"The City of New Orleans"	Steve Goodman	4:31
3.	"Lightning Bar Blues"	Hoyt Axton	2:47
4.	"Shackles and Chains"	Jimmie Davis	2:49
5.	"1913 Massacre"	Woody Guthrie	4:15
6.	"Somebody Turned on the Light"	Hoyt Axton	3:13
7.	"Ukulele Lady"	Richard A. Whiting, Gus Kahn	3:21
8.	"When the Ship Comes In"	Bob Dylan	4:24
9.	"Mapleview (20%) Rag"	Arlo Guthrie	2:05
10.	"Days Are Short"	Arlo Guthrie	4:15
11.	"Hobo's Lullaby"	Goebel Reeves	3:57

v t e Arlo Guthrie
Studio albums	Alice's Restaurant (1967) Running Down the Road (1969) Washington County (1970) Hobo's Lullaby (1972) Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (1973) Arlo Guthrie (1974) Amigo (1976) Outlasting the Blues (1979) Son of the Wind (1992) Mystic Journey (1996)
Live albums	Arlo (1968) Precious Friend (1982) Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited (1996)
Compilations	The Best of Arlo Guthrie (1976)
Songs	"Alice's Restaurant" "City of New Orleans" "Massachusetts"
Related	Discography Woody Guthrie (father) Marjorie Guthrie (mother) Nora Guthrie (sister) Rising Son Records Alice's Restaurant (film)

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