My Ramblin' Boy

MY RAMBLIN’ BOY
By Tom Paxton
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Chorus:
And here's to you, my ram-blin' boy,
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May all your ram-blin' bring you joy.
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Here's to you, my ram-blin' boy,
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May all your ram-blin' bring you joy.
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1
He was a man and a friend al-ways
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He stuck with me in the hard old days.
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He nev-er cared if I had no dough,
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We ram-bled round in the rain or snow.
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2 
In tulsa town we chanced to stray.
We thought we try and work one day.
The boss said he had room for one,
Said my old pal, ``we'd rather bum.''

3
Late one night in a jungle camp
The weather it was cold and damp.
He got the chills and he got them bad,
I lost the only friend I had.

4
He left me here to ramble on,
My ramblin' pal is dead and gone.
When we die, we go somewhere,
I'll bet you a dollar he'll be ramblin' there.

Tom Paxton & Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yNfnqueYQY&feature=related