Hobo's Lullaby (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Hobo's Lullaby

| type = studio

| artist = Arlo Guthrie

| cover = Hobo's Lullaby.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 1972

| recorded = October–December 1971

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| genre = Folk, folk rock

| length = 37:20

| label = Reprise

| producer = Lenny Waronker, John Pilla

| prev_title = Washington County

| prev_year = 1970

| next_title = Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys

| next_year = 1973

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last=Newsom |first=Jim |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/hobos-lullaby-mw0000315556 |title=Arlo Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby |work=AllMusic |accessdate=April 21, 2020}}

|rev2 = Billboard

|rev2score = (favorable){{Cite magazine |author= |title=Billboard Album Reviews |magazine=Billboard |date=1972-05-27 |volume=84 |issue=22 |page=53 |url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/album-reviews/docview/1017432581/se-2 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-03-04 |via=ProQuest}}

|rev3 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev3Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: G|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=G&bk=70|accessdate=February 24, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

|rev4 = New York Times

|rev4score = (favorable){{Cite news |last=Mayer |first=Ira |title=The New Folk Singers—From Burns to Croce |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1972-08-27 |location=New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/27/archives/article-1-no-title.html |access-date=2024-03-04}}

|rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=295}}

}}

Hobo's Lullaby is an album by the American folk singer Arlo Guthrie. 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".

Track listing

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| title1 = Anytime

| note1 =

| writer1 = Herbert Lawson

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| length1 = 1:46

| title2 = The City of New Orleans

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| writer2 = Steve Goodman

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| length2 = 4:31

| title3 = Lightning Bar Blues

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| writer3 = Hoyt Axton

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| length3 = 2:47

| title4 = Shackles and Chains

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| writer4 = Jimmie Davis

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| length4 = 2:49

| title5 = 1913 Massacre

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| writer5 = Woody Guthrie

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| length5 = 4:15

| title6 = Somebody Turned on the Light

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| writer6 = Hoyt Axton

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| length6 = 3:13

| title7 = Ukulele Lady

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| writer7 = Richard A. Whiting, Gus Kahn

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| length7 = 3:21

| title8 = When the Ship Comes In

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| writer8 = Bob Dylan

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| length8 = 4:24

| title9 = Mapleview (20%) Rag

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| writer9 = Arlo Guthrie

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| length9 = 2:05

| title10 = Days Are Short

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| writer10 = Arlo Guthrie

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| length10 = 4:15

| title11 = Hobo's Lullaby

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| writer11 = Goebel Reeves

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| length11 = 3:57

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