I was surprised to read a reference in a post from (yikes!) twenty years ago to "a whole genre of Depression-era songs that lionized the hobo ...." I never thought of any of those songs that I'm familiar with as 'lionizing' the hobo; they seem to be mainly about the misery and misfortune of hobo life - as opposed to, by way of contrast, the more commercial 'cowboy' songs, and those songs of the Folk era that, in the one instance romanticized cowboys, and in the other, the carefree drifter. However, I'm willing to be educated .... Anyone?