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)