Johnny McEvoy - Boston Burglar, аккорды

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I was born and raised in Boston, a place you all know well, 
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Brought up by honest parents, the truth to you I'll tell, 
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Brought up by honest parents, 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 taken 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 guilty, and the clerk he wrote it down, 
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The judge he passed the sentence, I was bound for Charlestown. 
 
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They placed me on an east bound train on a cold  December's day, 
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And every station we passed by you could hear the people say, 
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There goes the Boston burglar, in cold chains he is bound, 
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For one crime or another he is bound for Charlestown. 
 
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All you who have your freedom, take warning if you can, 
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And don’t go round the streets at night breaking laws of God or man
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For if you do you'll surely loose and find yourself like me, 
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Serving up full twenty years in the penitentiary