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Thread #52605   Message #806082
Posted By: GUEST,Kipling
18-Oct-02 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I wish there were no prisons
Subject: Lyr req- 'I wish there were no prisons'
Does anyone know the words to a song which i believe is called I wish there were no prisons. I heard it sung from an old red-faced man in Birmingham, UK.

It refers to stealing spuds or potatoes from babies in prams and I think the chorus goes:

I wish there were no prisons,
I do, don't you?
I wish there were no prisons,
with me hands, with me fists, with me maulers.

I think he said it wa swritten by a well known gypsy from Hull. Ayone else know of it?
Kipling