Jim Clancy

歌詞

To Bangor City last year I came; to the town I took a fancy I enlisted a job in the Water Works, 'long of my friend Jim Clancy Jim, he didn't stay but a day or two while I stuck on like a daisy Bad luck to me soul, had I gone with Jim my poor heart would-a been easy. One Saturday night I got my stamps - for Brewer town I started I sent a man and he asked me to drink - says I, "You're very kind hearted." I took a drink of the lay-down punch - which laid me out completely Sometimes I get a little mite drunk, but that night I got beastly. When I awoke me stamps was gone, in another hotel I was setting My bag and baggage was my only chum, and my bedroom door was a-grating. I loudly for the Boss did call, my stomach bein' in want of a diet When a man with a star did to me appear, sayin' "Damn your eyes, keep quiet!" I was taken to court that very afternoon and charged for Creating a Riot They said I knocked a policeman down while trying to keep being quiet. I told the story to the Judge - to the best of my recollection He fined me 50 cents and costs... of six months in the House of Correction. My stamps was gone so I had to go too, a makin' brick for the stack, boys; And all on account of the lay-down-punch and the meetin' of the hoboes. And now young men when you do go out, if you have got any money Keep away from the lay-down-punch, and the hoboes for their cunning.