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I'd rather sit here Mr Sheriff up near to the end of the car	A
We won't do so much advertising if we stay in the seat where we are	A
That sweet little dude saw the bracelets that you on my wrists have bestowed	B
And tells the new passengers promptly you're taking me over the road	B
I've had a well patronized trial the neighbors all know of my fall	C
But when I get out among strangers I'm sensitive like after all	C
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For I was a lad of good prospects some three or four summers ago	D
There wasn't any boy in our township who made a more promising show	D
I learned all of Solomon's proverbs and took in their goodness and worth	E
Till I felt like a virtue hooped barrel chock full of the salt of the earth	E
And this precious picnic of sorrow would likely enough have been saved	F
If I had had less of a heart sir or home had contained what it craved	F
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For the time when a boy is in danger of walking a little bit wild	G
Is when he's too young to be married too old to be known as a child	G
A bird in the lonely grass thickets just out of the parent tree thrown	H
Too large to be kept in the old nest too small to have one of his own	H
When desolate 'mid his companions his soul is a stake to be won	I
'Tis then that the Devil stands ready to get a good chance to catch on	J
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Oh yes I'd a good enough home sir so far as the house was concerned	K
My parents were first class providers I ate full as much as I earned	K
My clothes were all built of good timber and fit every day to be seen	L
There wasn't any lock on the pantry my bedroom was tidy and clean	L
And taking the home up and down sir I'd more than an average part	M
With one quite important exception there wasn't any room for my heart	M
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The house couldn't have been any colder with snow drifts in every room	N
The house needn't have been any darker to make a respectable tomb	N
I used to stop short on the door step and brace up a minute or more	O
And bid a good bye to the sunshine before I would open the door	O
I used to feed daily on icebergs take in all the freeze I could hold	P
Then go out and warm in the sunshine because my poor heart was so cold	P
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And hadn't I a father and mother Oh yes just as good as they make	Q
Too good I have often suspected though maybe that last's a mistake	Q
But they'd travelled so long and so steady the way to Perfection's abode	B
They hadn't any feeling for fellows who could not as yet find the road	B
And so till some far advanced mile post on goodness's pike I could win	R
They thought of me not as their own child but as one of the children of sin	R
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And hadn't I brothers and sisters Oh yes till they somewhat had grown	H
Then shivering they went off and left me to stand the cold weather alone	H
For I had the luck to be youngest the last on the family page	S
The one to prop up the old roof tree the staff of my parents' old age	S
Who well understood all the uses to which a mere staff is applied	T
They used me whenever convenient then carelessly threw me aside	T
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And hadn't I any associates Oh yes I had friends more or less	U
But seldom I asked them to visit our house with the slightest success	U
Whenever the project was mentioned they'd somehow look blue like and chill	V
And mention another engagement they felt it their duty to fill	V
For now I am only a convict there's no harm in telling the truth	W
My home was a fearful wet blanket to blood that was seasoned with youth	W
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Not one bless d thing that was cheerful no festivals frolics or games	X
No novels of any description 'twas wicked to mention their names	X
My story books suddenly vanished my checker boards never would keep	Y
No newspaper came through our doorway unless it was first put to sleep	Y
And as for love well that old song sir is very melodious and fine	Z
With No place like home in the chorus I hope there ain't many like mine	Z
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And so soon my body got hating a place which my soul couldn't abide	T
And Pleasure was all the time smiling and motioning me to her side	T
And when I start out on a journey I'm likely to go it by leaps	A2
For good or for bad I'm no half way I'm one or the other for keeps	A2
My wild oats flew thicker and faster I reaped the same crop that I sowed	B2
And now I am going to market I'm taking it over the road	B
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Yes it grieved my good father and mother to see me so sadly astray	C2
They deeply regretted my downfall in a strictly respectable way	C2
They gave me some more admonition and sent me off full of advice	D2
And wondered to see such a villain from parents so good and precise	D2
Indeed I have often conjectured when full of neglect and its smarts	E2
I must have been left on the door step of their uncongenial hearts	E2
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My home in the prison is waiting it opens up clear to my sight	F2
Hard work and no pay day a coming a close cell to sleep in at night	F2
And there I must lie sad and lonesome with more tribulation than rest	G2
And wake in the morning with sorrow sharp sticking like steel in my breast	G2
But maybe the strain and the trouble won't quite so much o'er me prevail	H2
As 'twould be to some one who wasn't brought up in a kind of a jail	H2
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You've got a good home Mr Sheriff with everything cosy and nice	D2
And 'tisn't for a wrist shackled convict to offer you words of advice	D2
But this I must say of all places your children may visit or call	C
Make HOME the most pleasant and happy the sweetest and best of them all	C
For the Devil won't offer a dollar to have his world chances improved	I2
When Home is turned into a side show with half the attractions removed	I2
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Don't think I'm too bitter good sheriff I like you you've been very good	J2
I'm ever and ever so grateful would pay it all back if I could	J2
I didn't mean to slander my parents I've nothing against their good name	K2
And as for my unrighteous actions it's mostly myself that's to blame	K2
Still if I'd had a home But the prison is only one station ahead	L2
I'm done Mr Sheriff forget me but don't forget what I have said	L2
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SEPTEMBER	M2
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Vice vice vice vice and 'tisn't all clear and free	N2
Where any one can take a look and see	N2
And then decide immediate on the spot	O2
Whether he'll buy his soul farm there or not	O2
It's scattered round about so 'mongst the good	J2
Folks can't entirely shun it when they would	J2
Much better to escape it we'd be able	P2
If 'twas obliged to carry 'round a label	P2
It always does some time before it ages	Q2
But not enough so in its early stages	Q2
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My mind was led around about this way	C2
By a well dressed young man I met to day	C2
Who strove to twist some money out of me	N2
But had instead a first class lecture free	N2
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My cousin Abdiel Stebbins large and good	J2
Inclined to do even better than he should	J2
And with a heart that gets him into scrapes	R2
Of a most strange variety of shapes	R2
But who before they've run a fatal course	S2
Always gets out of them by sheer main force	S2
Wrote me two letters several years ago	D
Which I have kept with no intent to show	D
But simply to read over now and then	T2
As part of my text book entitled Men	T2
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I think I'll get my cousin's wail by letter	M2
And paste it here where I can find it better	M2

William Mckendree Carleton

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