The Boston Burglar chords by James Keelaghan

James Keelaghan - The Boston Burglar




INTRO: G  C  G  D  G    C  D  G  Em  C  D  G  C  G

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

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


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


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


INSTRUMENTAL: G  C  G  D  G    C  D  G  Em  C  G  D  C  G
              G  C  G  D  G    C  D  G  Em  C  D  G  C  G  D

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All you who'd have your freedom

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