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Poor and Rambling Boy

from The Last Tree by Jack Warshaw

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A “song from the gallows,” or last words of a condemned prisoner. Texts, called Broadsides, were sold at public executions, or sung by the composer as local news.

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I am a poor and a rambling boy
Many are the shores it's I have been
In Cumberland City I paid my way
Spend my money at the ball in play

In Cumberland City I married me a wife
Loved her as I loved my life
She's treated me kind both night and day
Caused me to rob the road highway

So my pretty little miss, now fare thee well
Love you so well no tongue can tell
If pleasure no more on earth I see
I wouldn't treat you as you're a treatin' me

Oh my pretty little miss sixteen years old
Hair just as yeller as the shinin' gold
Oh the prettiest face and the neatest hands
God bless the ground on where she stands

Now my mother sits and weeps and moans
Sister says she's left alone
My true love weeps in deep despair
With her dark brown eyes and her curly curly hair

I'll get me some paper and it's I'll sit down
drop a few lines to Gov'ner Brown
And every word shall be the truth
Pray for the Gov'ner to turn me loose

I'll buy me a ticket in Greenville Town
Get on the train and it's I'll sit down
Oh the wheels will roll and the whistle will blow
Take me six months to get back home

Come young and old and stand around
See me laid in this cold ground
I'm not ashamed or afraid to die
But I hope to see you bye and bye

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from The Last Tree, released February 14, 2020
Jack, vocals and banjo

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Veteran of the 1960s folk revival, he passionately believes, writes and sings with authenticity and respect for traditional American styles and song carriers. He has met, learned from or worked with such legends as Pete, Mike and Peggy Seeger, Tom Paley, Ewan MacColl, Bob Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Clarence Ashley, Dave Van Ronk, Stuart Burns and many others. Watch Youtube. Bio on Wikipedia ... more

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