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First Line: Come, all you lads of pleasure and rambling boys beware

First Line: In eighteen hundred and sixty four, I landed on Columbia's shore

First Line: Come, all you railroad section hands, I hope you will draw near

First Line: I will tell a story that was told to me

Summary: The singer lists the negatives of life working in a lumber camp and on a log drive including the absense of women and alcohol. He vows to quit this line of work and get married.

First Line: Come, all you tender Christians, I hope you will lend ear

First Line: As I went a-walking one morning in May

Summary: James Downey is on the run after accepting a bounty (perhaps multiple bounties) to join the Union Army and thereafter fleeing with the money. Captured at last, he prefers death to revealing where his money is hidden. Downey is condemned,…

Summary: The singer complains about his wife. She makes him do work around the house and does very littler herself. She drinks, gossips, is ugly and dirty. Dean uses some "eye dialect" implying an Irish accent in his printing including "lave"…

First Line: Come all you jolly shanty boys, wherever you may be