Boston Burglar

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


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


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


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