Run Boy Run

You were born by a railroad track
 Never knew your ma and your pa ain't comin' back
 Had to make your way the best you can
 But you didn't have to steal from another man
 Run boy run boy run boy run they're gonna get you boy run boy run
 They're gonna catch you boy run boy run run boy run boy run boy run
 Think you're a man cause you're twenty one
 Shot a man for nothin' and away you run
 Wanted in most every state from here to Tennessee
 If you're caught you'll do your runnin' hangin' from a tree
 Run boy run boy run boy run...
 Storm clouds lookin' down from the sky
 And hangman's noose swingin' on a tree near by
 The words on that tombstone that won't be read by you
 Says his runnin's done at twenty one he won't see twenty two
 Run boy run boy run boy run...
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 (I don't know whether you'll believe this or not
 But we have two brothers in Trouble who're thievinist sneakinist
 Well just down right crookedest people you'd ever wanna meet
 Now of course that may not be too hard to believe
 But when Orville and George Dobkins that's the two brothers steal somethin'
 They didn't steal from none of us they steal from each other
 That's right they steal from each other have each other arrested and put in jail
 Now Orville's been in jail well twelve times
 And George well George has been in eleven in fact he's still in
 Now the other day I saw Orville on the street
 And after we got thru with our howdy's I aked him how George was
 He kinda smiled and scratched the hammer holder on his overalls
 And said he guessed he's okay
 Then I said you know Orville it seems an awful shame
 For you and your brother to be stealin' from each other all the time
 Havin' each other arrested spendin' all that time in jail
 You must feel kinda bad with your brother all locked up in jail
 And you out here free as a bird
 Well Orville kinda grinned and said it ain't so bad he can do anything he wants to do)