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Artist: Pernell Roberts
Canonical path: /pernell-roberts/rake
Related lyric paths: 6
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Rake
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Rake
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Well i'm a rake and ramblin' boy.
There's many a city i did enjoy,
And now i've married me a pretty little wife
And i love her dearer than i love my life.
Oh, she was pretty, both neat and gay
Caused me to rob the broad highway
Oh, yes, i robbed it, i do declare.
And i got myself ten thousand bail.
Chorus
Oh when i die don't bury me at all
Place my bones in alcohol
And at my feet place a snow white dove
To let the world know i died for love.
Well i'm a rake and a ramblin' boy.
There's many a city i did enjoy,
And now i've married me a pretty little wife
And i love her dearer than i love my life.
And i love her dearer than i love my life.
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Pernell Roberts performs "Rake", and this lyric page sits inside the Pernell Roberts catalog on LyroVerse.
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