Poor Boy Lyrics

Poor Boy lyrics

Never sing for my supper

 I never help my neighbour

 Never do what is proper

 For my share of labour.

 

 I'm a poor boy

 And I'm a rover

 Count your coins and

 Throw them over my shoulder

 I may grow older

 Nobody knows

 How cold it grows

 And nobody sees

 How shaky my knees

 Nobody cares

 How steep my stairs

 And nobody smiles

 If I cross their stiles.

 

 Oh poor boy

 So sorry for himself

 Oh poor boy

 So worried for his health.

 You may say every day

 Where will he stay tonight.

 

 Never know what I came for

 Seems that I've forgotten

 Never ask what I came for

 Or how I was begotten.

 

 I'm a poor boy

 And I'm a ranger

 Things I say

 May seem stranger than Sunday

 Changing to Monday.

 Nobody knows

 How cold it flows

 And nobody feels

 The worn down heels

 Nobody's eyes

 Make the skies

 Nobody spreads

 Their aching heads.

 

 Oh poor boy

 So worried for his life

 Oh poor boy

 So keen to take a wife.

 

 He's a mess but he'll say yes

 If you just dress in white.

 

 Nobody knows 

 How cold it blows

 And nobody sees

 How shaky my knees

 Nobody cares

 How steep my stairs

 And nobody smiles

 If you cross their stiles.

 

 Oh poor boy

 So sorry for himself

 Oh poor boy

 So worried for his health.

 You may say every day

 Where will he stay tonight.

 

 Oh poor boy

 So worried for his life

 Oh poor boy

 So keen to take a wife.

 

 Oh poor boy

 So sorry for himself

 Oh poor boy

 So worried for his health

 Oh poor boy.