Poor Boy
Adapted by:Robert (Bob) Harter - Robert DeCormier
Publisher:
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| Belafonte Folk Singers - LPM-2309, 3AE-3446, |
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| Bob Harter - LST-7330 |
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| Burl Ives - DL5013, DL8247 |
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| Pete Seeger - FWX-52321 | ||
| Glenn Yarbrough - TLP1019 |
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As I sat down to see how the cards read
I could not hold my hand
Got a thinking about the woman I love
Run away with another man
Run away with another man poor boy
Run away with another man
Got a thinking about the woman he loved
Run away with another man
I went down to the train depot
The train came rumbling by
Well I looked in a window
Saw the woman I loved
And I hung down my head and cry
I hung down my head and cry
I jumped right on that train platform
I run right down the isle
Well I pulled out my 40 some odd
And I shot that dark-skin child
The night was dark the wind did blow
The rain it sure did rain
Well I ain't got a friend in this whole wide world
Nobody knows my name
