Rambling Boy

Key of F · Chords: I V

Verse 1

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I was raised but a rambling boy
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Too many a city I did enjoy
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And there I married me a pretty little wife
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And I loved her dearer than I love my life

Verse 2

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She was pretty both neat and gay
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She caused me rob the road highway
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I robbed it yes I do declare
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I made myself ten thousand there

Verse 3

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Plenty dry goods for to carry me through
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My pistol swore like money too
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My forty four she never failed
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My true love come for to go my bale

Verse 4

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My mother said she has no home
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My sister said she’s all alone
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My wife she’s left with sad despair
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With a broken heart and a baby there

Verse 5

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Now when I die don’t bury me at all
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Just place me away in alcohol
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My forty four lay by my feet
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Please tell them I am just asleep