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A 'vagabond' is a (generally impoverished) itinerant person. Such people may be called tramps, rogues, hobos or schnorrer.
A vagabond is a traveling person that does not have a fixed home or abode. They just roam wherever he or she pleases.
Vagabonds are not bums, as bums are not known for traveling.
Famous vagabonds are mathematician Paul Erdős and educator Tim L. Karr.

Contents

In Literature

In Video Games

In Music

In Television and Film

See also

External links

In Literature

★ George Orwell's ''Down and Out in Paris and London'' is a memoir of his experiences as a vagabond in these two cities.

★ Jack Shaftoe, one of the major characters in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, is a vagabond.

In Video Games

★ In the NES and SNES versions of the video game, during the opening sequence the concierge of the plaza hotel says, "There's a little vagabond using stolen credit cards, his name...", he then says, "Kevin McAllister! Five feet of trouble. Blond hair, blue eyes...".

★ In the free MMORPG game, 9Dragons, the player starts off as a vagabond and can remain as such without having to join any of the clans.

★ In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, there is a non-playable character named "Vagabond" in the lower area of Shattrath city.

★ In the MMORPG Lineage II , the status players start with is "Vagabond" and is maintained until the person joins a clan.

★ In the MMORPG Eve, there is a Specialist Heavy Assault Ship that is known as a "Vagabond".

★ In the MMORPG Anarchy Online, there are many non-playable characters known as "Vagabonds"

★ In Shining Force 3 there is a town that moves across the world and re-appears in several scenarios called Vagabond.

★ In Wing Commander there is a pilot with the callsign "Vagabond".

In Music

★ Operetta composer Rudolph Friml wrote The Vagabond King a highly romantisized account of the life and adventures of poet Francois Villon.

★ Monoxide Child from the rap group Twiztid mentions vagabonds in his music.

★ Irish rock band Thin Lizzy's third album was entitled "Vagabonds of the Western World"

★ Australian rockers Wolfmother have a song called "Vagabond" on their 2005 debut album "Wolfmother". They also mention a vagabond in their song Joker & the Thief.

★ Bob Dylan refers to vagabonds in the song "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"

★ Joan Baez refers to Bob Dylan as "The Original Vagabond" in her 1975 song "Diamonds & Rust".

★ Elton John's song, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", which was featured in the Disney movie, ''The Lion King'', mentions "kings and vagabonds".

★ In the song "Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect" by The Decemberists, they say "we are vagabonds we travel without seatbelts on and live this close to death."

★ In Bon Jovi's "These Days", vagabonds are mentioned.

★ In Metallica's "Wherever I May Roam" mentions vagabonds.

★ Scottish acoustic rock band Unkle Bob features a song entitled "Vagabond" on its 2006 debut album, "Sugar & Spite".

★ The lead singer of The Paperboys (Norwegian/Urban) calls himself Vinnie Vagabond.

★ Air (band)'s 3rd album 10,000 Hz Legend includes the song "The Vagabond." The song features American musician Beck.

★ The music producer "Pulsedriver" had a trance hit in 2005 called "Vagabond".

★ In the song "Vagabonds" by New Model Army

★ In the song "Inherited Scars" by Sage Francis

★ In the song "Tigan şi OZN" by Zdob şi Zdub

★ In the song "Soul of a Vagabond" by Stratovarius

In Television and Film

★ In an episode of the television show ''Seinfeld'', the character J. Peterman refers to the character Kramer, as a "vagabond".

★ In an episode of ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', Geoffery refers to Will as an irresponsible vagabond, when Will was going to take Princess Penelope to the opera, and Will was taking things to keep him entertained.

See also

★ Vagrancy (people)

★ Squatting

★ Leatherman

★ nomad

External links

★ ''Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel'', a 2003 book by travel writer Rolf Potts, encourages the practice of wandering the world on a shoe-string budget.