Lonesome Traveler (Paperboys song)

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"Lonesome Traveller"
Single by Paperboys
from the album The Oslo Agreement
ReleasedAugust 31, 2009
Format Digital download, CD single
Genre Hip hop, Rap
Length3:55
Label Bonnier Music
Songwriter(s) Øyvind Sauvik, DJ Pope Dawg, Anders Møller
Music video
"Lonesome Traveller" on YouTube

Lonesome Traveller is a song by the Norwegian Hip-Hop group Paperboys. It was featured on the album The Oslo Agreement and is easy recognizable by its banjo-rap and choir in the chorus.

It spent twenty-four weeks in the Norwegian Singles Chart, five of which were at number one. [1]

The lyrics differ from the original Lonesome Traveller (Lee Hays song): Yo every day of my life I've been traveling, Went here, went there, came back again, ...

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References

  1. "Paperboys - Lonesome Traveller". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 6 January 2010.