Текст песни: Boston Burglar + перевод

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 rared most tenderly

'Til I became a sporting lad at the age of twenty-three

My character was taken and I was sent to jail

My friends, they came, and tried in vain to get me out on bail

The jury found me guilty, the clerk he wrote it down

The judge he passed the sentence, I was bound for Charlestown

I set my foot on an eastbound train, one cold December day

In every station we passed through, I could hear the people say

«There goes the Boston burglar, in strong chains he is bound»

«For one crime or another, he is bound for Charlestown»

All you that have your freedom, take warning if you can

And don’t go round the streets at night, breaking laws of God or man

And if you do you’ll surely rue and find yourself like me

A-serving out your twenty-one, at the age of twenty-three