Now everybody calls me Bo I got no money but all my row   Some folks say I'm just a no good kind   I can ride for miles in an old boxcar   Smoke cigarettes butts and used cigars   Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line      Hear that lonesome whistle whine   Spell that part from the Georgia pine   See that great big moon above hobo's life is a life I love   Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line, ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line      Well I had me a woman in Albany   But a rowdy way's made a wreck of me   I had to get away before I lost my mind   But as long as this rattler takes me around   Ain't one woman gonna tie me down   Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line      Hear that lonesome whistle whine Alabama and Caroline   Florida Georgia and Tennessee hobo's life is a life for me   Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line   Now make my coffee in a can this ol' boy ain't worried man      The morning sun greets me with a shine   I go south where the trade winds blows   I go north where there ain't no snow   Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line   Hear that lonesome, ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line   Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line