RAMSEY COUNTY JAIL



Last night as I lay sleeping,

I had a pleasant dream.

I thought I was in Minnesota,

Down by a quiet stream

With a charming gal beside me,

The lights would never fail

And I awoke to find myself, be God

In the Ramsey County Jail,



Then combine, ye hump and biddy,

From Tepperty town I steer.

Like every honest fellow

I like my lager beer.

Like every jolly young fellow

I take my whiskey clear.

I've a rambling rake of a father

And the son of a gamboleer,

They took me to the prison,

They locked me twenty and four.

They gave me all that I could eat

But I always wanted more.

The beds were of the finest

And sleeping never failed

For the feathers they did tickle me so

In the Ramsey County Jail.



From Folk Songs out of Wisconsin, Peters

Collected from Lester A. Coffee, Harvard, IL, 1946

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