New Prisoner's Song
by Dock Boggs
on Dock Boggs: Legendary Singer and Banjo Player (1964), His Folkways Years, 1963-1968 (1998)
For seven long years I've been in prison
For seven long more I have to stay
Just for knocking a man down in the alley
And taking his gold watch away
Sitting alone, sad all alone
Sitting in my cell all alone
A-thinking of those good times gone by me
A-knowing that I once had a home
Oh, once I had a sister and a brother
I wonder if they ever think of me
Oh, once I had a father and a mother
Who lived in a cottage near the sea
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