{"id":1303,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/back-in-durham-gaol"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"back-in-durham-gaol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/back-in-durham-gaol\/","title":{"rendered":"BACK IN DURHAM GAOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m a poor man as honest as they come I never was a thief until they caught me,
\nThe judge said he swore me hands were red, no matter how I pled they found me guilty,
\nThere was no bail, I’m off to Durham Gaol, I’m going and nothing now can save me,
\nCalamities they always come in threes, and that’s how many months it was they gave me.<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nAnd it’s no never in the livelong day,
\nWill you find me back in Durham Gaol.
\nAnd it’s no never in the livelong day,
\nWill you find me back in Durham Gaol.<\/p>\n

‘Twas a gray day when first I went astray, the divil take the man who came to tempt me,
\nFor in no time me life was one of crime, and now you see the trouble that its got me.
\nThere are four bare walls at which stare, me food and me lodgings they are paid for,
\nYou can’t see the turning of the key, to hear the turning that is all you wait for.<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

Oh it’s sad to say that here I to stay, with only iron bars around to lean on,
\nI get a bath to dampen down me wrath, though it’s barely just a month ago I got one,
\nGod knows I need a suit of clothes, you’d think they could have found a one to fit me
\nMe boots would be fine if they were both a nine, I’m walking like a fall of stones had hit me<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

And I’m sure that me mother’s heart would break, to see me in a state of such repentance,
\nI’m glad she’s not around to see, and I’ll be out before she finished her sentence,
\nThe sun will shine, I’ll leave it all behind, knowing I’ve done me time and done me duty,
\nThen out of the gate on the narrow and the straight, to the place where I’ve buried all the booty.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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