Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Hank Snow n.

In phrases

pull a Hank Snow (v.) [song ‘I’m Moving On’ by Country and Western star Hank Snow (b.1914)]

(US) to leave, to move on.

1978		excerpt from workshop on grief, 18 Mar. at MarshaSummers.com ‘Studies of the Inner Being’ 🌐 When I’m around two people and they’re fighting, I pull a ‘Hank Snow’—‘I’ll be a’movin’ on’. I have no business there.
1995		H. Barker ‘Escape from Chaun-ni’ in ‘Return to Heartbreak Ridge’ on KoreanWar.org 🌐 Sir we fought the shit out of them up there Sir but we had to pull a Hank Snow and bugout there was just too damn many of them.
2002		(ref. to 1930s) W. Fiennes Snow Geese (2002) 167: In the 1930s [...] Hank Snow had a hit called ‘I’m Moving On’ and the hoboes liked to say, ‘I’m going to pull a hank Snow’ [i.e.] jump a train and move on.