James Keelaghan - The Boston Burglar Chords

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I was born and raised in Boston
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A place you all know well
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Brought up by honest parents
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The truth to you I'll tell
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Brought up by honest parents
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And raised most tenderly
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'Til I became a sporting lad
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At the age of twenty-three


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My character was taken 
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And I was sent to gaol 
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My friends they came and tried in vain 
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To get me out on bail 
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The jury found me guilty 
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And the clerk he wrote it down 
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The Judge he passed the sentence
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I was bound for Charlestown 


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I can see my darling mother
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Standing at the bar 
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Likewise my dear father 
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Tearing out his hair 
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Tearing out his grey old locks 
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As the tears came trickling down 
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"My son, my son what have you done 
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To be sent to Charlestown?" 


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They placed me on an eastbound train 
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One cold December day 
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And every station we passed through 
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You could hear the people say 
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"There goes the Boston Burglar 
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In cold chains he is bound 
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For one crime or another 
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He is sent to Charlestown" 


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All you who'd have your freedom

Take warning if you can
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And don't go midnight rambling
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Or you'll break the laws of man
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And if you do you'll surely rue
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And wind up just like me
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Serving up full twenty years 
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In the penitentiary____