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Thread #100659   Message #3968092
Posted By: PHJim
24-Dec-18 - 12:37 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Boston Burglar
Subject: RE: Origins: Boston Burglar
This song was in the New Lost City Ramblers Song Book as Louiseville Burglar. I have a rough memory of the lyrics as:

Raised up in Louisville,
A city you all know well.
Raised up by honest parents,
The truth to you I tell.
Raised up by honest parents,
Raised up most tenderly,
Till I became a burglar
At the age of twenty-three.



I saw my dear old father,
A-pleading at the bar.
I saw my dear old mother,
A-tearing out her hair
A-tearing out those old gray locks
The tears were rolling down.
She says, “My son, what have you done?
To be sentenced to Frankfurt town.”

I know there are more verses, but I can't recall them right now.