Unknown Artist - A Prisoner For Life Lyrics

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A prisoner for life

My old father advised me when i was but young

"of ramblin' an' gamblin' bad company shun.

These words you'll remember when i'm old an' gray

These words you'll remember when i'm cold in my grave."

But i kept on a-ramblin' in that terrible band

Till i was attackted by the laws of the land

Was tried an' convicted for mail robbery

Nine years was transported across the salt sea.

Then i met my old father a-leavin' the dock

He wrang his poor hands an' he tore his gray locks

Sayin' "son they have ruint you i've advised you before

But now we are partin' to meet here no more."

If i was on shipboard pretty molly by me

Bound down in strong ireland i'd feel myself free

Bound down in strong ireland an' kept like a slave

'twas in my own country i did not behave.

Farewell little doogie to an embel you fly

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You sing an' you sorrow your troubles all by;

Oh what would i give in such freedom to share

To roam at my ease an' to breathe the fresh air.

Oh farewell kind comrades i'm willin' to own

That such a wild outcast has never been known;

'tis the cause of my ruin an' sudden downfall

An' caused me to labor behind the stone wall.

Note: one of many local variants each apparently with an

"authentic" local history. in next to last verse i find myself

Utterly charmed by "..little doogie to an embel you'll fly.."

Any missourians have a clue?

From ozark folksongs randolph. collected from carrie baber mo

1922

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