Back In Durham Gaol-The Dubliners

[ti:Back In Durham Gaol] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:Further Along] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Back In Durham Gaol - The Dubliners [00:23.98]I'm a poor man as honest as they come [00:27.03]I never was a thief until they caught me [00:29.78]The judge said he swore me hands were red [00:32.66]No matter how I'd plead he found me guilty [00:35.28]There was no bail I'm of to Durham Gaol [00:38.28]I'm going and nothing now can save me [00:41.10]Calamities they always come in threes [00:44.10]And that's how many months it was they gave me [00:46.74]And it's no never in the livelong day [00:49.74]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol [00:52.68]No never in the live long day [00:55.49]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol [00:58.74] [01:04.12]'Twas a gray day when first I went astray [01:06.99]The devil takes the man who came to tempt me [01:09.62]For in no time me life was one of crime [01:12.56]And now you see the trouble that it's got me [01:15.24]There are four bare walls at which to stare [01:18.24]Me food and me lodgings they are paid for [01:21.53]You can't see the turning of the key [01:24.03]To hear the turning that is all you wait for [01:26.66]And it's no never in the livelong day [01:29.73]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol [01:32.53]No never in the live long day [01:35.35]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol [01:38.55] [02:12.43]Oh it's sad to say that here I am to stay [02:15.30]With only iron bars around to lean on [02:17.87]I get a cold bath to dampen down me wrath [02:20.93]Though it's barely just a month ago I had one [02:23.87]God knows I need a suit of clothes [02:26.74]You'd think they could found a one to fit me [02:29.50]Me boots would be fine if they were both a nine [02:32.76]I'm walking like a fall of stones had hit me [02:35.13]And it's no never in the livelong day [02:38.26]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol [02:41.01]No never in the live long day [02:43.88]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol [02:46.89] [02:52.26]And I'm sure that me mother's heart would break [02:55.32]To see me in a state of such repentance [02:58.01]I'm glad she's not around to see [03:00.82]And I'll be out before she finishes her sentence [03:03.57]The sun will shine I'll leave it all behind [03:06.76]Knowing I've done me time and done me duty [03:09.45]Then out of the gate on the narrow and the straight [03:12.63]To the place where I've buried all the booty [03:15.07]And it's no never in the livelong day [03:18.13]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol [03:21.00]No never in the live long day [03:23.82]Will you find me back in Durham Gaol