Misc Originals – Brian Gannon - Papa Joe (Guitar)

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Left my mother, Brothers Sisters and Friends

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Got daddy’s trunk and an old violin

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Ship set of late for a long sailing

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Head full of dreams and a few shillings

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Eaman said he could get me work in Boston

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Had a few friends and a ferry connection

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After 2 weeks, cold rocking and 25’s

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I made it to Eastie sick but alive

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Got a ferry job and I am on my own 2 feet.

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Young Joe is driving his mother insane

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Next Steps a mansion in Jamaica Plain

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It was a big old house on paris street with

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My cousin his wife and 20 or so friends

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It was a long time until my papers come in

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And they handed me a stick and I began shoveling

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Boy did I weep

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When my horse didn’t come in

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I had hawked off the ring of my only darling

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What a dreadful walk from the track to my door.

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Pots on the stove and three kids on the floor.

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Now I am singing each dance over on Bennington

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I got a ferry job and I’m on my own 2 feet

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Old Joe is driving his wife insane

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Forget about the mansion in Jamaica Plain