Boston Burglar

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I was born and raised in 
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Bos-ton, a place you all know well,
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Brought up by honest par-ents, 
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the truth to you I’ll tell.
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Brought up by honest par-ents, 
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and raised most tenderly,
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Till I became a sporting lad, at
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 the age of twenty three.


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 My character was ta-ken, and I
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 was sent to jail,
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 My friends they came and tried 
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in vain, to get me out on bail.
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 The jury found me guil-ty, the 
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clerk he wrote it down,
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 The judge he passed my sentence 
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and I was sent to Charlestown.


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They placed me on an east bound 
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train, one cold December day,
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And at every station we passed 
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through, you could hear the people
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 say.
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“There goes the Boston bur-glar 
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in cold chains he is bound,
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For one crime or another he is 
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bound for Charlestown”.


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Now you that have your freedom, 
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take warning if you can,
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Don’t go around the streets at 
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night, breaking laws of God and 
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man.
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For if you do you’re sure to 
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rue, and find yourself like me,
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Serving up twen-ty three years,
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 in the Pena-ten-tury.