The Boston Burglar chords by James Keelaghan

Chords with lyrics

James Keelaghan - The Boston Burglar



INTRO: G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD G+G  C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC G+G

        C majorC     G+G    D MajorD
I was born and raised in Boston
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A augmentedA place you all know well
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Brought up by honest parents
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The truth to you I'll tell
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Brought up by honest parents
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And raised most tenderly
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'Til I became a sporting lad
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At the age of twenty-three

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My character was taken
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And I was sent to gaol
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My friends they came and tried in vain
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To get me out on bail
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The jury found me guilty
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And the clerk he wrote it down
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The Judge he passed the sentence
E minorEm  C majorC     D MajorD   G+G   C majorC G+G D MajorD
I was bound for Charlestown


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I can see my darling mother
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Standing at the bar
C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
Likewise my dear father
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Tearing out his hair
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Tearing out his grey old locks
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As the tears came trickling down
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"My son, my son what have you done
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To be sent to Charlestown?"

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They placed me on an eastbound train
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One cold December day
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And every station we passed through
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You could hear the people say
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"There goes the Boston Burglar
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In cold chains he is bound
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For one crime or another
E minorEm  C majorC    D MajorD   G+G   C majorC G+G D MajorD
He is sent to Charlestown"


INSTRUMENTAL: G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD G+G  C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm C majorC G+G D MajorD C majorC G+G
       G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD G+G  C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD

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All you who'd have your freedom

Take warning if you can
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And don't go midnight rambling
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Or you'll break the laws of man
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And if you do you'll surely rue
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And wind up just like me
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Serving up full twenty years
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In the penitentiary____