Dock Boggs - Poor Boy In Jail lyrics

Oh, my mama's in the cold, cold ground My daddy, he went away My sister married a gamblin' man And now I'm gone astray I sit here in this old jail And I do the best I can Get to thinking about the woman I loved She ran away with another man She ran away with another man, poor boy She ran away with another man Get to thinking about the woman I loved She ran away with another man I went out on the prairie And I stopped the Katy train Took a bag of mail from standing there / Took a bag of mail from the baggage coach And I walked away in the rain They got the bloodhounds on me And they run me up a tree Said, "Come down from there, my boy And go to the penitentiary" I said, "Mr. judge, Mr. Judge What you goin' to do to me?" Said, "If the jury finds you guilty, my boy I'm goin' to send you to the penitentiary" They took me to the railroad station A train come rollin' by I looked in the window, saw the woman I loved And I hung my head and cried