Chords for Boston Burglar

[G] _ _ _ I'm a-thorn [C] and [G] rare in [D] bosom, [G] and I'll ask [C] you [G] all the way.
[C] Run off my [G] honor's bearing, the truth is you [D] are a king.
[G] Run off [C] my [G] honor's [D] bearing, [G] and never [C] come [G] tenderly.
[A] [C] Till I became [G] a man, and [D] at the age of [G] fifty,
_ Tell my father [C] [G] that I [D] _ [G] _
[C] was a [G] king.
[C] My friends and [G] relations are vast, for they get me [D] out of bed.
[G] But the jewelry [C] [G] family [D] built [G] in the [C]
junkie [G] wrote it down,
[C] For breaking [G] all the debts, it made [D] me a cent a [G] jar. _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ can see [C] my [G] dear old [D] father, [G] he was [C] standing [G] at the bar,
[C] And like my fine [G] dear mother, he was staring at [D] her hair.
_ [G] Staring [C] [G] at her, though [D] they [G] looked a [C] guilty [G] crumbling,
_ [Bm] [C] I thought, my son, [G] what have you done [D] to be such a [G] whore?
_ There's a [C] girl in [G] Boston, [D] Fanny, [G] a [C] girl I [G] love so well,
[C] And if I [G] had my money with her, I long [D] to dwell.
[G] And if [C] I [G] had my [D] money [G] to a [C] county I [G] was young,
_ [C] I'd quite [G] walking that night, [D] and I'd quite [G] drinking round.
Tell you [C] that [G] I'm a king, [D] [G] but you keep [C] an ill [G]-to-kind.
_ [C] Don't go [G] midnight rambling, or breaking [D] all the limbs,
[G] Cause if you [C] do, [G] you're sure to [D] lose, [G] and you'll end [C] up just [G] like me.
[C] You'll be standing down [G] for twenty years [D] at the _ [G] penitentiary.
_ [C] You'll be standing down [G] for twenty years [D] at the penitentiary.
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