The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109881 Message #2897038
Posted By: Jim Dixon
29-Apr-10 - 10:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Who Said I Was a Bum? (Howard Johnson)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Who Said I Was a Bum? (Howard Johnson
St. John Tucker phrased it somewhat differently: "A hobo is a migratory worker. A tramp is a migratory non-worker. A bum is a stationary non-worker."
--quoted in "Long Steel Rail" by Norm Cohen.