Poor Boy-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Poor Boy] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Poor Boy - Woody Guthrie [00:12.91]My mother called me to her bedside [00:15.41] [00:16.04]These words she said to me [00:18.08] [00:19.58]If you don＇t quit your rambling ways [00:22.43]They＇re gonna get you in the penetentiary [00:24.46] [00:25.83]Gonna get you in the penetentiary poor boy [00:28.90]Gonna get you in the penetentiary [00:30.56] [00:32.37]If you don＇t quit your reckless ways [00:34.73] [00:35.26]They＇re gonna get you in the penetentiary [00:37.14] [00:38.59]So I sat myself down in a gambling game [00:41.18] [00:41.77]But I could not play my hand [00:43.84] [00:45.06]Just thinking about that woman I love [00:48.13]Run away with another man [00:50.17] [00:51.52]Run away with another man poor boy [00:54.59]Run away with another man [00:56.50] [00:57.84]Just thinking about that woman I love [01:00.88]Run away with another man [01:02.80] [01:04.50]The cards came around the table lord [01:06.75] [01:07.30]And I had such a worried mind [01:09.41] [01:10.57]My stack of gold dollars I wasted away [01:13.04] [01:13.58]And I lost about ninety-nine [01:15.34] [01:16.89]I lost about ninety-nine poor boy [01:20.04]I lost about ninety-nine [01:21.67] [01:23.23]My stack of gold dollars I wasted away [01:25.66] [01:26.23]And I lost about ninety-nine [01:27.89] [01:29.52]It wasn＇t very long till I seen him again [01:32.55]He ran away left her behind [01:34.28] [01:35.81]And I laid him down with my old forty-four [01:38.31] [01:38.89]And the judge gave me ninety-nine [01:40.87] [01:42.15]The judge gave me ninety-nine poor boy [01:45.22]The judge gave me ninety-nine [01:47.29] [01:48.35]I laid a man down with my big forty-four [01:51.23]And the judge gave me ninety-nine [01:53.06] [01:55.27]Well the jury said I had to pay [01:57.81] [01:58.43]And the clerk he wrote it down [02:00.36] [02:01.60]And the judge called out my number [02:03.74] [02:04.74]Two sixes upside down [02:06.77] [02:08.00]Two sixes upside down poor boy [02:11.01]Two sixes upside down [02:12.89] [02:14.32]The judge called out my number [02:16.69] [02:17.37]Two sixes upside down