• Song:

    New Prisoners Song

  • Artist:

    Dock Boggs

Dock Boggs: http://www.folkways.si.edu/dock-boggs/his-folkways-years-1963-1968/
american-folk-old-time/music/album/smithsonian

G              C         G
Sitting alone, sad, all alone,
G                      D7
Sitting in my cell all alone,
G                                      C
Just thinking of those good times gone by me,
D7                      G
Knowing that I once had a home.

G                                 C
For seven long years I've been in prison,
    D7                        G
For seven long more I have to stay;
          G                        C
Just for knocking a man down in an alley,
    D7                    G
And taking his gold watch away.


G              C         G
Sitting alone, sad, all alone,
G                      D7
Sitting in my cell all alone,
G                                      C
Just thinking of those good times gone by me,
D7                      G
Knowing that I once had a home.


G                              C
I once did have a sister and a brother,
   D7                         G
I wonder if they ever think of me?
  G                            C
I once did have a father and a mother
    D7                         G
Who lived in a cottage by the sea.

G              C         G
Sitting alone, sad, all alone,
G                      D7
Sitting in my cell all alone,
G                                      C
Just thinking of those good times gone by me,
D7                      G
Knowing that I once had a home.
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