Long as there's a few people that know these things...here's a question I admit is about as silly as the definition of "folk music." That is, the distinction between "Tramp, Hobo, Bum." The usual distinctions I read differ from what I was taught by several practitioners in 1958 during the very brief period I wandered & rode freights & enjoyed unorthodox hospitality. They differ as to readiness to travel, readiness to work, taste for jungles and/or towns (and/or missions) and tendency to "bum" money. As I say, it doesn't really matter but a while back I actually considered the text to "THE TRAMP" by Joe Hill, another great traveller and observer of the ways of the Road.

In this bitter but very singable song, Hill uses all three terms interchangable in reference to himself (ie, the singer.) Tramp

Is there any meaning to thin, do you think?