Wolfe Tones - The Boston Burglar
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I was born and raised in Boston
A place you all know well
Brought up by honest parents
The truth to you I'll tell
Brought up by honest parents
And raised most tenderly
Till I became a sporting blade at
The age of twenty three

My character was taken and I was sent to jail
My friends and parents tried in vain for
To get me out on bail
But the jury found me guilty and the judge
He wrote it down
For the breaking of the Union Bank
You are sent to Charlestown

I set my foot on an eastbound train
One cold December day
And every station we passed through
I could hear the people say:
"There goes the Boston burglar
In cold chains he is bound
For the breaking of the Union Bank
He is sent to Charlestown"

Now, who have your liberty
Pray keep it if you can
And don't go midnight rambling
Breaking laws of God or man for if you do
You'll surely rue and end up just like me
Serving out twenty years in a penitentiary

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