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Thread #170961   Message #4135397
Posted By: RandyL
05-Feb-22 - 05:42 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ken Maynard 1930 8 songs Columbia Record
Subject: RE: Origins: Ken Maynard 1930 8 songs Columbia Record
There are many different versions of songs within these lyrics by Ken Maynard recorded in 1930.Can anyone point them out?

Prisoner for Life

Oh oft times I've wondered how women loved men,
And oft times I've wondered hom men could love them.
They'll lead you to ruin, they'll cause your down-
fall
They'll cause you to labor by many a stone wall.

If I was on shipboard and Lula with me,
Bound down in cold irons I'd bang myself free.
Way over in Old Ireland my parents warned me,
To leave off while roaming and bad company.

Oh, eat when I'm hungry, oh, I drink when I'm
dry.
If a limb don't fall on me I'll live till I die.
Fare ye well green fields, soft meadows of dew,
Rocks and mountains I depart from you.

My eyes by a beauty be blessed,
Never more shall you soothe my sad bosom to rest.
Fare ye well little birdies that fly in the sky,
You fly all day long and sing your troubles by.

Never more shall I watch your scaling away,
I'll depart from all friends inside of the grave.
To roam at my ease and breathe fresh air?

I'd roam through the city, through village and dell,
Never would return to my cold prison cell.
What's life without liberty, I oft times have said,
I've a poor troubled mind that's always in dread.

No sun, moon, and stars can on me now shine,
No change in my danger from daylight till dawn.
Fare ye well good friends I'm willing to roam,
Such a wild outcast never was known.

I'm a downfall of my family, my children, my wife,
God pity and pardon this prisoner for life.