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