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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.