Poor Boy Long Way from Home

[Intro]
(This is called "Poor Boy")

[Verse 1]
Me and poor boy was travelling
Travelling a long way from home
Me and poor boy got pulled off
Got pulled off and prison bound

[Verse 2]
My dear mother, she got worried
When we was down all in the farm
Mama, she called that farmer on up
And they told her that her sons' prison bound

[Verse 3]
My dear mother got on the farm
She called down a little farm
My mother talked to the sergeant
He wanted not to have mercy out on bail

[Verse 4]
Well this sergeant told dear mother
He would take 200 dollar bill
We didn't have no one
To come and get us out on bail

[Verse 5]
Poor boy, he got all worried
Come walking to us breaking down
I said "Poor boy, don't worry
Our mother get us out of prison bound"

[Verse 4]
Well this sergeant told dear mother
He would take two hundred dollar bill
We didn't have no one
To come and get us out of bail

[Verse 6]
Oh, my mother she got worried
She couldn't get them two hundred dollar bill
So one Sunday morning
My mother, she drove to the farm

[Verse 7]
Well, the sergeant met my mother
Drove on up to her at the gate
My mother, she told the sergeant
She never had no two hundred dollar bill!

[Verse 8]
Well, my mother she kneeled down
My mother kneeled down on her knee
Oh, my mother pleas the Sergeant
"Will you please sir have some mercy on me?"

[Verse 9]
My dear mother, she really cryin'
Told the sergeant, then she broke down
He said "These boys promised
They will not hobo on my train!"

[Verse 10]
I said "Listen, brother poor boy
Don't be worried cryin'
Somebody, somebody, somewhere
Is gonna get us off prison bound"