Los Duggans — Poor Boy in Jail lyrics

Lyrics

Oh My Mama’s in the cold cold ground
my daddy he went away
my sister married a gambling man and now I’m going astray
I sit here in this old jail and I do the best I can
get to thinking 'bout the woman I love ran away with another man
she ran away with another man poor boy
she ran away with another man poor boy
just thinking 'bout the woman I love
she ran away with another man
I went out on the prairie
and I sought to get (?) a train (?)
(took a bag of mail was standing there)? (whole line is hard to hear)
and I walked away (in the rain?)
they got their bloodhounds on me and they run me up a tree
say come down from there my boy and go to the penitentiary
I said Mr. Judge Mr. Judge what you going to do to me?
say the jury find you guilty my boy going to send you to the penitentiary
They took me to the railroad station
a train come rolling by I looked in the window saw the woman I loved
and I hung my head and cried
I hung my head in shame poor boy
I hung my head and cried
I looked in the window saw the woman I loved
and I hung my head and cried